Restricting Democracy

Posted by guest blogger "Sayf Maslul"


"That people must submit is taken for granted pretty much across the spectrum. In a democracy,the governed have the right to consent, but nothing more than that.

In the terminology of modern progressive thought, the population may be “spectators,” but not “participants,” apart from occasional choices among leaders representing authentic power. That is the political arena. 

The general population must be excluded entirely from the economic arena, where what happens in the society is largely determined. Here the public is to have no role, according to prevailing democratic theory."

[Noam Chomsky]