one American's resistance to fear and the abandonment of freedom

2008-01-01

Capitalism and Democracy at Odds

GreaterDemocracy.org supports the argument made by John Gray that capitalism is a threat to democracy. Jock Gill points us to a quote from Benjamin Barber:

Capitalism has put democracy in trouble, because capitalism has tried to persuade us that being a private consumer is enough. That a citizen is nothing more than a consumer. [Benjamin Barber, Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007]

Being a consumer is not enough. We must speak up, vote, run for office, raise hell. That's the role our Founding Fathers saw for us

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