What Is “Democracy?”
FROM Is Christianity Bankrupt? by Adrien Arcand (1954):
… Take the word “democracy”, which in human society (on both sides of the Iron Curtain) has become the supreme imperative and has replaced all divine authority with one and the same propaganda. What does this global password, this all-powerful verbum, mean? Anything, as long as it is against the True, the Just and the Beautiful.
In Russia, “democracy” justifies the slavery of twenty million men in concentration camps, the destruction of religion, the family, the right to property. In Palestine, it beatifies the most virulent and savage racism. In France, it glorifies disunity and instability. In England, it confirms the abandonment and abdication of an historical role called “vital, capital” not a decade ago. In China, it sanctions usurpation, tyranny and despotism. In America, it canonizes plutocracy, socialism, miscegenation, degradation of morals. When a monarch eats a hot dog at the White House, that is proclaimed “democratic.” (more…)
