This is of course an extremely modern view of democracy. If you think everything other than our system today is authoritarian, you are going to find a lot of au

This is of course an extremely modern view of democracy. If you think everything other than our system today is authoritarian, you are going to find a lot of authoritarianism in every place you look. It isn’t a very useful definition of authoritarianism. It reminds me a bit of the word “heretic” the way you are using it.