"CAPITALISM'S ANTAGONISM TOWARD POPULAR RULE IS STRUCTURAL — IT IS BUILT INTO THE political DNA of capitalism itself By nature, if not by design, capitalism is a system in which a small minority of individuals controls the wealth, labor, production, political power, and cultural expression of the whole of society. Under capitalism, the demos is permitted to exert only the mildest, most indirect of influences on the direction of state and society. All of the truly important decisions — the ones that concern what kinds of technologies and commodities get produced, what kinds of laws will be passed, and which wars should be fought (or whether any should be fought at all) — are effectively left in the hands of a small clique whose members are drawn from the ranks of what C. Wright Mills famously called "the power elite." No matter how many finance reform laws are passed in Congress, the enactment of new laws alone will never be sufficient to neutralize the tremendous discrepancy in power between the wealthy few and the ordinary many."
Capitalism deprives the right to vote from the working class. Anti-Democracy is intertwined with Capitalism. It is a system in witch a small amount of people, control everything in a society. The working class is does not realize that their every action is guided by an invisible hand. The Capitalists boast of their "Right to Ownership" but do we truly own anything in this country or does the bank? I believe the latter. There have been too many wars started because corporate greed.
Sanbonmatsu, John. " Why Capitalism Shouldn't Be Saved.." EBSCOhost n. pag. Web. 16 Nov 2010. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=19&hid=8&sid=a19d6cec-8f19-40d5-86a2-813786eb5216%40sessionmgr15&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aqh&AN=39753533>.
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