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"One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests…. The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, “Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.”"

by:
Sidney Hook
(1902-1989) American Marxist philosopher
Source:
Political Power and Personal Freedom, 1959

 
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