Political democracy has failed in the U.S. because there…

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.

— Anker Jørgensen

“There can be no real political democracy unless there is something approaching an economic democracy,” he wrote. “There can be neither political nor industrial…

— Ganesh Sitaraman

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

— Ludwig von Mises

Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our own country.…

— Starhawk

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

— Anonymous

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that failed, their…

— Masha Gessen

“Democracy failed in Europe in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, and it is failing not only in much of Europe but in many parts…

— Timothy Snyder

Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds…

— Upton Sinclair

“The familiar claim – or ‘moral’ exhortation – that ‘if you don’t vote, you’ve no right to complain’ surely has it the wrong way…

— Paul McLaughlin

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy…

— Tommy Douglas

What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself?…

— John Dewey

“Political democracy, judged on its own terms (as a basic political value in itself), is not to be judged (consequentially) in terms of its…

— Paul McLaughlin

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually…

— Chrystia Freeland

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of…

— B. R. Ambedkar