There is a tension between democracy and wealth-hoarding, and America is an experiment in both. We are a strange mixture of democratic ideals from Classical Greece and hierarchical capitalism from Renaissance Europe. That’s an explosive combination. The wealth of American capitalism has been protected from democratic redistribution by a shocking series of propaganda campaigns. This mini-essay series illustrates the point by drawing an analogy with a matador… Read the rest here.
There is a tension between democracy and wealth-hoarding, and America is an experiment in both. We are a strange mixture of democratic ideals from Classical Greece and hierarchical capitalism from Renaissance Europe. That’s an explosive combination. The wealth of American capitalism has been protected from democratic redistribution by a shocking series of propaganda campaigns. This mini-essay series illustrates the point by drawing an analogy with a matador…
Read the rest here.