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is being decentralized and spread out in all multitudes of spheres of
human life and activity, from family, workplace, and neighborhood,
up to the humankind in general.
Thus, we can summarize that today’s democratization processes of
the world are indeed correlative to philosophical musings on democracy
as the process of approaching the optimal social and political
organization. Democracy process as formal extension of ‘demos’ notion
entitling all the people with no exception with the right to be subjects
of power must be followed by concretization of the notion of power,
providing for the realization of that right in practice, developing from
dominance – through government and management – to competent
activity and creativity of self-organized and culturally eminent human
personalities as new subjects of democracy process.
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DEVELOPMENT OF TODAY’S
DEMOCRACY:
PEOPLE, POWER, AND
HUMAN PERSONALITY
Iurii Mielkov e Anatoliy
Tolstoukhov