Corporatists Like Quote by Yanis Varoufakis

“four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.”

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the so-called will…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“As James Heartfield, author of The European Union and the End of Politics, noted, to follow such events is to ‘Step through the looking…

— Mick Hume

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to…

— David Cameron

“technologies come and go. Economic structures evolve and change. Society adjusts. But democratic basics persist in spite of the Tofflers, Gingrich and the chorus…

— John Ralston Saul

“The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting. The…

— James Altucher

“Democracy in contemporary society is a fake, predicated on an illusion that we are together making choices about how best to manage ourselves, an…

— Ian Parker

“No bourgeoisie, no democracy.”

— Edward Luce

“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.”

— Jerry Ash

“Count Coudenhove-Kalergi put it succinctly in one of his speeches when he declared his ambition that Europe “supersedes democracy” and that democracy be replaced…

— Yanis Varoufakis

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is,…

— B. W. Powe

“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.”

— Gustave Flaubert