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INEQUALITY AND THE LABYRINTHS OF DEMOCRACY - GO...

Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what
explains the advent of liberal democracy  and how stable today is the marriage between
representative government and the continued rule of capital? Across every continent  people
think inequality is a 'very big problem'. Even the Davos Economic Forum and the OECD say they
are worried. And yet capitalist states don't respond. How has democracy been transformed from a
popular demand for social justice into a professional power game? To dispel our worsening
political malaise  Goeran Therborn argues  requires a 'disruptive democracy' of radical social
movements  such as the climate strike. Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy opens with a
major new essay mapping the social fractures of the present era. There is also a compact
historical survey of worldwide patterns of democratization and a landmark analysis of the OECD
economies  'The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy'  originally published in New Left
Review and collected here in book form for the first time.

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