David Korten Quotes About Democracy
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We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.
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The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.
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Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
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Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
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