There have been many politically democratic states in societies which were not capitalist; and there have been many nondemocratic states in capitalist society. Political orators, war-propagandists, and others who use words emotively rather than scientifically confuse these facts of history. They speak of “democracy” when they mean “capitalism” or of “capitalism” when they mean “democracy,” or they lump the two together in such phrases as “our way of life.” If the fate of democracy is in truth bound up with the fate of capitalism, that is something to be independently proved, not to be taken
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