The Washington Post: "Democracy Dies in the Darkness!" Also The Washington Post: "Democracy at work, you say? Actually, it turns out that people hate democracy."pic.twitter.com/37XxAduot7
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To neoliberals, "democracy" will always mean one and only one thing: elections where the politicians answer to their corporate donors, and corporations whose executives do NOT answer to their workers and/or the public. "Democracy" is when undemocratic businesses govern society.
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The two biggest threats to this are always politicians like Bernie Sanders/AOC who bypass corporate donors and answer directly to their constituents; and far worse, extra-political democratic organizations like unions/co-ops. In other words, functioning democracy is the enemy.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it ... to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. – Noam Chomsky
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Our crisis of freedom stems from operative technology of power exploiting Free choice/Wahl for free selection/Auswahl. Smart power stimulates & seduces,
#Neoliberalism is the capitalism of the Like button. People subjugate themselves to domination by consuming & communicating.pic.twitter.com/ZxoDoVyScEThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Democracy = politicians and plutocrats advancing their priorities together, with public opinion as a weak check keeping them from being too outrageous
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Yes, I often say neoliberalism is essentially corporatism
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