the end of communism also marked the end of democracy, our era today is not only post-communist, it is also post-democratic. Today we are witnessing … - Alexander Zinoviev

We can consider that the era we have just entered is not only post-communist but also post-democratic.

Western society is undemocratic, totalitarian in its very essence - at the level of production cells. And that is why it is democratic in its superstructure, in its ideology. There is a sort of law of constancy of the sum of democracy and totalitarianism.

The one-party system does not come from an error or bad design, it is, on the contrary, perfectly normal, because our society does not have ONE party, it is WITHOUT a party. p. 115-116

In the present case, historical judgment furthermore obstructs the scientific understanding of the society that interests us, because the stories here impose functions foreign to this society. p. 40