pseudodemocratic

I mean, to me the problem is that we've got this pseudodemocratic institution in The Hague, which is imposing its will on those people, imposing its will on the American people in some decisions.

CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2001 2001

It did not serve to pave the way for bourgeois exploitation or to maintain under pseudodemocratic formulas a society in which the great majority works for a minority of exploiters and parasites with the resulting abuse of privileges, injustice, inequality, and vice which such a system, inexorably condemned by history, brings with it.

30TH ANNIV. OF ASSAULT ON MONCADA BARRACKS 1983

In Chile and Uruguay, Pinochet and the Montevideo gorillas have tried to escape through pseudodemocratic masquerades from the decision of their peoples, who reject the neofascism that they represent.

CASTRO READS MAIN REPORT AT PCC CONGRESS 1980

Among the basic preconditions of totalitarian dictatorship ranges the pseudodemocratic fiction that by mass meetings and other emotional processes of communi - cation the individual is directly linked to, and repre - sented by, the Leader — without the need of interme - diate agencies like free parliaments or interest groups: it is the fiction of direct mass democracy.

TOTALITARIANISM KARL DIETRICH BRACHER 1968

This pseudodemocratic base of totali - tarian systems should however not be mistaken for reality, as is done by both conservative critics who explain totalitarianism simply as the consequence of democracy, and by apologists of Communist or Fascist systems who praise the “democratic” quality of plebi - scites and acclamations.

TOTALITARIANISM KARL DIETRICH BRACHER 1968

It has become clear how important in this connec - tion the pseudodemocratic appearance must be for a regime claiming total consent.

TOTALITARIANISM KARL DIETRICH BRACHER 1968