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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Democratic states are the abstraction of all the private interests of their citizens.

I am not sure what this means, can you clarify a bit?

[–] tillimarleen@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A democratic state allows its citizens to pursue their private interests. This is only possible though if this is happening in a legal framework, so that the private interests of one citizen don‘t infringe upon the ones of another. The outcome of this consideration then is the abstraction (the specific applied to the universal) of the free will of the citizens. We call it freedom and justice. Others call it the free market.