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Surely while one can argue that ultimately Representative Democracy and an Autocracy are both different scales of the exact same problem, and while some of the edges may be buffered under the representative system it is still ultimately tyrannical and has demonstrated to not truly serve the interests of the people, and surely we are all aware that regardless of if your a proponent of either of these systems they aren't the only options, and we know that the alternative of Direct Democracy has also proven to be a functional system that avoids the pitfalls of those too, even if it presents different ones, though I'd argue that with modern technologies most of the flaws of this system which tend to be logistical in nature can be addressed.You're making the point that unions are run by leaders, thus for workers to own a company means that powers lies in the hands of a few people anyway, implying it makes no difference. But the mandate on which that owner has his power is very different, and is likely to result in very different levels of worker influence.
The obvious analogy is that between a representative democracy and an autocracy. Representative democracies and autocracies both have enormous power invested a small handful of people, but there is a very obvious difference in how the two systems tend to end out in governance and conditions for everyone involved.
Basically I'm not saying it's necessarily an obliviousness in the difference between systems but an awareness of the similarities they share and due to this they're bound to repeat similar acts of corruption and tyranny, though I don't know I'm not Specter, but at the very list this is my personal reasoning for condemning the farce of Representative Democracy as much as I condemn the Autocracy of a King or Dictator.