Ummm…No. Notwithstanding your otherwise fine article.

Socrates was sentenced to death for incitement of insurrection against the government of Athens, the mob being his own students. It was the third time it had happened, and Athens was not charmed. The first two times were temporarily successful, until the people of Athens overthrew the insurrectionists and reconstituted their precious democracy after much death and destruction had occurred. They were unwilling to risk a repeat performance.

Socrates was no fan of democracy; he was an autocrat who taught that philosophers would make the wisest leaders. Socrates, of course, was a philosopher.

[The Trial of Socrates (1988), I. F. Stone]