We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Capitalism, Democracy, and Elections

Click here to access article by Richard D. Wolff from MRZine. 

Capitalists love to describe their governments as "democratic". But, are they really? In this article the author provides us with a quick dissection of capitalists' version of democracy, finds essential pieces missing and others of dubious quality for them to qualify as a real democracies.
Capitalism and real democracy never had much to do with one another.
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