Marx and Che spouting Communists pretending to be Democrats
What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. …Communists/socialists are the biggest proponents of democracy, i.e. mob rule. A so-called “democratic constitution” is always in flux and can always be bent to the will of a central dictator.
— Friedrich Engels, “The Principles of Communism”
… [I]t is quite clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost—if not quite—one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …
— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”
Was it then a Democracy the framers created? Hardly. The system of restraints, on the face of it, was directed not only against individual tyrants, but also against a tyranny of the masses. The framers were well aware of the danger posed by self-seeking demagogues—that they might persuade a majority of the people to confer on government vast powers in return for deceptive promises of economic gain. And so they forbade such a transfer of power—first by declaring, in effect, that certain activities are outside the natural and legitimate scope of the public authority, and secondly by dispersing public authority among several levels and branches of government in the hope that each seat of authority, jealous of its own prerogatives, would have a natural incentive to resist aggression by the others. …And the self-seeking demagogues are just too numerous to mention today.
— The Conscience of a Conservative, Chapter 2, “The Perils of Power”