Thursday, June 14, 2012

Capitalism democracy

  • Once upon a time Marxist-Leninists said that the state, after its seizure by the proletariat, would wither away. Instead, big government grew more oppressive in communist countries.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • Unfortunately if it stays this way the government haters will win. Capitalism has become sacrosanct here not democracy.
  • (DAILY KOS)
  • But whatever. I'll give it a try anyway. Off the top of my head, there are three possible solutions to the problem of capitalism: welfare state, social-democracy, and socialism.
  • (The Northern Light)
  • I call his message a serene song because capitalism, like any system, is as good as its practitioners.
  • (Baltimore Sun)
  • Ironically, the one arena in which unions have made some headway this year is shareholder capitalism: By using the voting but at a time when democracy in the workplace and polling place has been diminished, its what they have left.
  • (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • The constraints of capitalism define the overall context What we have with these methods and practices of worker co-operatives can be considered tools for democracy.
  • (Dissident Voice)
  • Lets go back to the wonderful days before capitalism; all of those upper-middle class a key misstatement is the contention that we live in a democracy. The Founding Fathers wisely bequeathed to us a constitutional republic.
  • (South Coast Today)
  • RIO DE JANEIRO: Social movements will voice their discontent at what they see as capitalist attempts to hijack a proposed society can express its discontent, said Alves Margarido of the Democracy and Sustainability Institute.
  • (Economic Times)
  • Once one of the darlings of the BRICs, the world's largest capitalist democracy is now nothing more than a "gasping elephant", HSBC said in a new report. For a nation of 1.2 billion, India's GDP grew at just 5.
  • (Forbes)
  • Protesting that it "was not even consulted before the publication" of the USFI's endorsement of SYRIZA, OKDE warns: "It is clear that the political objectives of SYRIZA remain definitively within the framework of capitalism and bourgeois democracy.
  • (World Socialist Web Site)

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