Comments on: Capitalism has put democracy in trouble http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/633 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:04:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: C. Ikehara http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/633#comment-3546 C. Ikehara Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:33:27 +0000 http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/633#comment-3546 Concerning the comment, "Capitalism has put democracy in trouble, because capitalism has tried to persuade us that being a private consumer is enough. That a citizen is nothing more than a consumer", the following article asks: - ...Has the unbridled spread of commercialism and technology transformed us from small groups of active amateur participants to a large single mass of professional passive spectators and nonstop consumers? http://starbulletin.com/2007/06/03/editorial/commentary.html Concerning the comment, “Capitalism has put democracy in trouble, because capitalism has tried to persuade us that being a private consumer is enough. That a citizen is nothing more than a consumer”, the following article asks:

- …Has the unbridled spread of commercialism and technology transformed us from small groups of active amateur participants to a large single mass of professional passive spectators and nonstop consumers?

http://starbulletin.com/2007/06/03/editorial/commentary.html

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