الديمقراطية وتغّول السلطة (التفريغ الإيديولوجي للتحرر من الاستبداد)

Abstract

In an advanced reading of the fate of the democratic experience in the Arab world in general, and Iraq in particular, we encounter many focal points which the majority of researchers and politicians turn to to evaluate the transitions and setbacks that took place and the projections of what is yet to come to restore the course of action and be able to meet boundless circumstances despite the pressures and challenges of the reality on the ground that justify the sublime orientation towards democracy, at least to avert the threats of tyranny.

This led the masses, with their political activities, to realize the vitality, and urgency, of the need for an ideological system that gives value to the democratic transformation and enhances the view of this transformation as a historical, not a political, measure, and as a civilized project, not a soulless, speculative plan.

Hence, the need to look into formulas of real understandings to contextualize the waves of liberation from tyranny (protests and revolutions) to deepen their political value and shield their motives and mechanisms against underestimation and devoidness, and to make them a reference and criterion to evaluate the process of democratic transformation, especially after it had been exposed to many challenges as a result of the increasing impact of technology and its achievements, especially in the field of communication.

This is how the Arabs following the Arab Spring, and before them the Iraqis after (2003), seemed confused about achieving their goals and aspirations in resisting tyranny and seeking liberation as a primary requirement for democratic transformation due to the lack of the general will to organize and evaluate.

We reached the point where democracy has become associated with the participation or non-involvement in elections and with power-sharing agreements without approaching its requirements, especially after the advocates of democracy, politicians, and leaders of political events found they had become elitist tyrants who were not satisfied with competing for power but clang to it without accounting for any moral, social, or political requirements or obligations. This establishes for the return to the state of revolution and protests for the same purpose of liberation, this time, however, from the incursion of power. This is what we will look into closely in this study.