Capitalists Have Never Been Friends of Democracy
Capitalists are sometimes accommodating of electoral democracy. But at no point in history have capitalists ever accepted the outcome of elections that might threaten capitalist property relations.
Dylan Riley is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California Berkeley and a member of the New Left Review editorial committee.
Capitalists are sometimes accommodating of electoral democracy. But at no point in history have capitalists ever accepted the outcome of elections that might threaten capitalist property relations.
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