Democracy for the Few tries to strike a balance

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it tries to explain how democracy is incongruous with modern-day capitalism and is consistently violated by a capitalist social order, and yet how democracy refuses to die and continues to fight back and even make gains despite the great odds against popular forces.

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“By power I mean the ability to get what one wants, either by having one’s interests prevail in conflicts with others or by preventing others from raising their demands.
Power presumes the ability to manipulate the social environment to one’s advantage. Power belongs to those who have the resources to enable them to shape the political agenda and control the actions and beliefs of others, resources such as jobs, organizations, technology, publicity, media, social legitimacy, expertise, essential goods and services, organized forces and – the ingredient that often determines the availability of these things – money”.
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