Whereas political democracy demands that citizens who must live with government decisions participate in making them, capitalist enterprise explicitly excludes workers from participating in decisions they must live with, making capitalism fundamentally undemocratic.

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Richard Wolff

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The mass of people in our economic system are required to live with the consequences of the decisions made by the corporate leaderships. Decisions from which they are excluded legally and in practice de facto. Whatever else you call this system, it is not democratic.

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Democracy at Work: Curing Capitalism | Richard Wolff | Talks at GoogleTalks at Google
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:07:20 AM

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