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This article concerns the sources and mechanisms of the monopolisation of power in democracy. Where do the claims of people's representatives for exclusive rights to rule come from? The author pleads two arguments and try to prove them in both the history of theoretical frameworks of democracy and its political adaptations. The first argument is that these claims are provoked by the very idea of democracy – they are its structural component which decides on its pharmakonic action, because – that's the second argument – it (the idea) is based on the construction of oppositional concepts like egalitarianism vs. elitism, power of the people vs. power of capital and their derivatives. That's why democracy, as a cure for – in respect of gaining – equality, freedom and justice, can poison these values to death simultaneously. It creates inequalities and discriminates separated people. Every substantial content of its formal values is fatal to it. It tends to move to some kind of authoritarianism, fundamentalism or totalitarianism.

Charles Taylor is currently one the most renowned and influential contemporary philosophers. He is also widely quoted and discussed both in the social sciences and humanities. Taylor earns this attention through his remarkable capacity for presenting his conceptions in the broadest possible intellectual and cultural context. His philosophical intuition is fundamentally antinaturalistic, and tends toward developing broad syntheses Otherout a trace of systematizing thinking, or any anarchic post