Another structural weakness is that while vertical hierarchical structures are strong ... democracy . . . capable of acting as a brake on autocracy and as a bulwark against mad and bad politics”.

I have written several texts about the transitional society we are in. Whenever I do, Gramsci’s famous thought comes to mind: neither the old has totally died nor the new has totally asserted itself; ...

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Democrats warned that the 2024 election presented a choice between democracy and autocracy, competence and incompetence, and a government that works for all the people and one that would be ...