"Representative" vs "Real" Democracy
Is America embracing Castroism? If so, what will follow?
We take for granted that America is a democracy. If we live here, we tend to assume it is the democracy. But ours is actually an example of a particular type of democracy — a representative democracy. Other types of democracy exist. It is worthwhile to compare the America theory of representative democracy with the Cuban theory of “real” democracy. By b…