Democracy is not government

There is a difference between democracy and the state… that is to say that not all states are democratic. This is obvious when we consider one-party dictatorships (in this case we have a state with no elections) but we can also consider states which are fully democratic to be in some sense anarchist and absent. If we have full democracy then we can say to some degree that the people are entirely represented and so then they are autonomous and there is no meaningful ‘state’ to speak of. We generally think of the state as being something separate and apart from the people so then if the people are fully-represented there is no state. We can think of full democracy (direct democracy) as being a form of statelessness. If we have full democracy we do not have a state in the traditional sense.