Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back…

Arundhati Roy
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Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. ✨ Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'. Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.
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