The thing is, democracy in capitalist society has never belonged to the people.

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: freedom for slave owners.”
— V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
Reposted from Robert Reich
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." 

—Louis Brandeis

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