Democracy and its others

Democracy is characterized by an axiomatic civilized form of government that people can have only when they arrive at the ultimate level of civilizational advancement. Like capitalism, democracy comes with the final stage of evolution. In this scheme of things, lesser forms of government and political organizations can be termed as the infancy of evolution and civilization. Democracy promotion is invested with a moral dimension for other states to follow. It is not that different states do not see America's geopolitical ambition in this plan, nor does it mean that America really believes in coaxing others. The democracy zealots ignore the fact that democracy, the way we understand it today, has a very recent origin and that it was the product of a particular historical moment. Democracy promotion is ultimately the promotion of Western liberal democracy which is more pronounced in the economic rather than the political sphere.