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antidemocratic development
2016,2017
Overview
Though written in large letters on the face of history, the fact that economic development is antidemocratic is hard to see. We have been taught just the opposite, that democracy and development go together. It is no coincidence, most historians argue, that the democratic movement and the industrial revolution appeared at the same moment in European history. The two support one another. On the one hand, they say, economic development is the necessary condition for democracy. Industrialization produces wealth, wealth produces leisure, leisure gives people the freedom to learn about and participa te in politics, and this freedom makes democracy
