ABSTRACT
A specified political group can make valid political decisions by taking a poll among its members, people are implicitly assuming that with respect to political decisions all the individuals belonging to the group are qualitatively identical, and thus equal; differing only quantitatively, only as one numerical unit from another. Political Common Denominator (CD) has become, in short, the mass-man; the people have become "the masses", or more precisely, "the mass". Democratism-Caesarism-the masses: all three are elements of the same political equation. The masses, anonymous and undifferentiated by definition, are the natural electorate for the vast binary plebiscites into which the prevailing democratist ideology of people age tends to transform the democratic process. The masses can be thought of as a homogeneous, uniform substance like a loosely set gelatin without inner structure, that sways and bends under pressure, and assumes the shape dictated by the external system of forces playing on it.
