What liberals mean when they say democracy is the freedom for the wealthy to intervene in politics.
Socialists: "We want more democracy. Democracy at work, democracy in politics, democracy over resources, and democracy over the media." Capitalists, for some reason: "this is a threat to democracy."
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It's democracy in the sense that only rich people count as people.
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Proletarian Democracy > bourgeois “democracy”
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Bourgeois democracy is democracy for the ruling class. There vested interests are protected and prioritised whichever candidates win they will win. That's why we see tax breaks for the rich while the healthcare system is in disarray and thrillions are spent on foreign wars
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Capitalism is diametrically opposed to democracy. They cannot fundamentally coexist with one another it is a Oxymoron to say so
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Karl Popper: I agree with the Capitalists. If you give people democracy, then they will eventually get rid of democracy. Me: Why? Popper: because it is the paradox of tolerance! Me: okay, how. Popper: ... because Cf. The Open Society and its Enemies. I'm not joking.
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that's an incredibly poor take of the book. If you haven't read it, you should. If you have read it, you need to get some help to understand it (though I have a hard time imagining that to be the case)
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This is a good video explaining your tweet to those who these ideas might be new to Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism, Talks at Google. Wolff is a legend.https://youtu.be/ynbgMKclWWc
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Capitalism is antithetical to democracy
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