Because representation of the people was brought about by the drawing of lots, we might speak of an aleatoric-representative democracy (from the Latin for dice)
in Athens
The equilibrium came to an end as a result of neoliberal thinking, which reshaped public space radically in the 1980s and 1990s. Not civil society but the free market was now the main architect and this applied to countless domains of public life, especially the media.
over the course of the centuries a 'public sphere' emerged, to borrow a phrase and a theory from German sociologist Jürgen Habermas
For the development of his alternative he took inspiration from the Paris Commune of 1871 (the source of the word 'communism')
on Lenin. did not know the etymology of communism
three leaders inveighed bitterly against the parliamentary system: Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.
