{"id":317797,"date":"2021-09-19T17:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=192381"},"modified":"2021-09-19T17:09:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:09:13","slug":"understanding-the-basics-of-21st-century-democracy-autocracy-and-capitalism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/19\/understanding-the-basics-of-21st-century-democracy-autocracy-and-capitalism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding The Basics Of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, And Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"Residential communities in many parts of the modern world operate in formal democracies. However, they usually allow individuals with high levels of income and wealth to use these means to influence others in their voting, whereas individuals with low levels of income and wealth can and usually do wield less influence. The capitalist economic system generates precisely that unequal distribution of income and wealth that creates and sustains a wide gap between formal and real democracy in the world today. That gap in turn reinforces capitalism.\"<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/understanding-the-basics-of-21st-century-democracy-autocracy-and-capitalism\/\">Understanding The Basics Of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, And Capitalism<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/understanding-the-basics-of-21st-century-democracy-autocracy-and-capitalism\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Residential communities in many parts of the modern world operate in formal democracies. However, they usually allow individuals with high levels of income and wealth to use these means to influence others in their voting, whereas individuals with low&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5725,432],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317976,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317797\/revisions\/317976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}