Unconditional Surrender to the Volonté Générale Tage Lindbom The Myth of Democracy | 1991 (from parts XI and XII) Nowhere is man so insignificant as in a democracy. …. But does not modern man have a great compensation in citizenship? Is not citizenship the great human assumption of responsibility and social morality? Actually, the father of universal citizenship, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, has abolished the foundations of this citizenship because he proclaims the unidimensionality of popular sovereignty. For Rousseau, the highest norm is not law; the highest norm is the will of man, above which nothing can be admitted. But genuine...
