Salon.com > Gun Laws http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 04:40:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Can capitalism and democracy coexist? http://www.salon.com/2013/01/17/can_capitalism_and_democracy_coexist/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/17/can_capitalism_and_democracy_coexist/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:58:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13174166 If you've ever pondered the issues surrounding the tenuous relationship between democracy and capitalism, most likely, you've considered them as both foreign and abstract (much as the elite media often does). Are, say, China and Russia authoritarian, capitalist or both at the same time? Can Middle Eastern countries use their sovereign wealth funds to build prosperous free-market economies while those nations also deny their citizens basic freedoms? Do transnational corporations that operate under the aegis of repressive regimes prove that capitalism can exist wholly without democracy?

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