As the title states, a critique of democracy, although it focuses more on direct democracy than on representative democracy (which, given that this publication is by an anarchist and distributed as a booklet at anarchist bookfairs, I suppose is considered deleterious by virtue). This is consistent with Bob Black's disliking of (what he sees as) statist systems ala Bookchin-ism masquerading as anarchism (I'm not saying that I agree with this necessarily, but this is absolutely Bob Black's position as laid out clearly in the lengthy polemic 'Anarchy After Leftism'). Bob lists off plenty of arguments against democracy of different kinds (even drawing on quotes from right-wing authors like Hobbes and Calhoun) and expands on them all in his usual cutting and lucid way.

No substitution is offered (its a given that Bob Black proposes anarchy, though what this might look like is not explained in this short work) but that isn't the intention of the work and so can't be deemed a criticism. I'm not sure as of yet whether or not Bob Black has a real substitution in mind, I suppose he might have a total laissez-faire attitude towards the conduct of life (in rejecting the very idea of systems its quite hard to propose an alternative without contradicting one's self), and given his embrace of primitivists like John Zerzan and bizarros like Hakim Bey, perhaps he never does give a clear idea of what an anarchist society (oxymoron? I don't know) might look like, though I can't say for sure as I'm not familiar with his whole body of writings, having only ventured into Anarchy After Leftism (well recommended, moreso than this piece) and some of his shorter essays and articles.