Tag: Establishment


Capitalism’s rise concentrated property, corrupted courts, and birthed a two-party dictatorship. The Civil War ended slavery, yet the bourgeoisie had already buried popular rule.
A democracia de pequenos proprietários nos EUA foi soterrada pela concentração de riqueza, criando um Estado a serviço do capital e dois partidos do mesmo dono.
De la democracia de pequeños propietarios a la dictadura de dos partidos: así el capitalismo concentró poder y enterró el gobierno popular en EE.UU.
Lincoln’s “government of the people” was real – once. In early America, weak state power, direct elections, and citizen militias made democracy tangible. But capitalism’s rise and elite consolidation would soon erase that world.

