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    Corporatocracy: Democracy -, #2
    Erosion of Democracy: Democracy -, #1
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    Democracy - Series

    By J. Dhopte

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    About this series

    This book is the second in the Democracy series, a series of three books.                          Corporatocracy refers to the powerful group of people who run the world's biggest corporations and the most powerful governments. The societies are ruled by a small minority of the wealthiest.  Of the world's 100 largest economies, 71 are corporations while only 29 are countries. More than two-thirds of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments.  So deep is the fusion between the corporations and the state that profits are now created largely by political means. We are living in an era where the interplay between state and corporate power shapes the reality of international relations more than ever.  Government is not really determined by the electorate, but rather by those with power, namely, firms. Corporations not only have the political power to influence states, but also the economic clout to devastatingly affect a state's economy should the state try to oppose an MNC. The economy no longer facilitates human society; humans live to serve the economy. We have gone beyond industrialisation and value-addition to a point where the rules are written by the financiers, and the finance industry. 'Freedom' has been reconfigured to refer to consumer choice rather than the ability to determine how to order one's life. The power of people is being curtailed by the people with power. The corporations procure more revenue than the government. Its global expansion and diversification seem to put state power back and has taken over the country on a geopolitical scale. The power of the state is limited and the MNCs are eroding states' sovereignty.  MNCs determine what the governments should do; this shadowy control over the political and economic interests of the government makes the corporations more powerful than the governments.  In order to kill the economic democracy, Corporate Power rigged the game. Democracy has become enfeebled largely because companies have invested ever greater sums in lobbying, public relations, and even bribes and kickbacks, seeking laws that give them a competitive advantage over their rivals. Our political institutions have allowed themselves to be effectively occupied, or more accurately worsened by these anti-market (and anti-public) institutions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Dhopte
    Release dateMar 1, 2023
    Corporatocracy: Democracy -, #2
    Erosion of Democracy: Democracy -, #1

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    • 1

      Erosion of Democracy: Democracy -, #1
      Erosion of Democracy: Democracy -, #1

      Erosion of Democracy: Democracy -, #1

      J. Dhopte
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      This book is a first part of the series - DEMOCRACY, a series of three books. Democracy during the last decade has suffered a dramatic decline.The constitutional democracies are being overthrown and there is an increase in the regimes that retain the formal institutional trappings while flouting the norms and values on which constitutional democracies are based.The forces of neo- liberalism are gaining ascendency in the world and the democratic public spheres are confronting a growing crisis.Politics has become an extension of war. The state supported corporate power seeks to reporoduce and reward an orientation to the world innfused with authoritarian ideas, pracices and principles. Uncivil behaviour by elites and pathological mass communication reinforces each other. There is a public ripe to be polarized and exploited by demagogues and the media manipulators. Thus, any response must involve ordinary citizens, but are they upto the task? If democracy is to have a future, all the various pedagogical apparatuses available must be transformed to support - critical thinking and a public culture capable of exerting a formative educational influence in favour of democratic freedom, justic, equality and fraternity. The author argues that the solutions cannot be found only by strengthening the constitutional institutions, the democracy must also seek to reinvigorate its democratic aspirations. Democracy must be saved and protected to acheive security, stability and prosperity for the entire world.

      This book is a first part of the series - DEMOCRACY, a series of three books. Democracy during the last decade has suffered a dramatic decline.The constitutional democracies are being overthrown and there is an increase in the regimes that retain the formal institutional trappings while flouting the norms and values on which constitutional democracies are based.The forces of neo- liberalism are gaining ascendency in the world and the democratic public spheres are confronting a growing crisis.Politics has become an extension of war. The state supported corporate power seeks to reporoduce and reward an orientation to the world innfused with authoritarian ideas, pracices and principles. Uncivil behaviour by elites and pathological mass communication reinforces each other. There is a public ripe to be polarized and exploited by demagogues and the media manipulators. Thus, any response must involve ordinary citizens, but are they upto the task? If democracy is to have a future, all the various pedagogical apparatuses available must be transformed to support - critical thinking and a public culture capable of exerting a formative educational influence in favour of democratic freedom, justic, equality and fraternity. The author argues that the solutions cannot be found only by strengthening the constitutional institutions, the democracy must also seek to reinvigorate its democratic aspirations. Democracy must be saved and protected to acheive security, stability and prosperity for the entire world.

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      Corporatocracy: Democracy -, #2
      Corporatocracy: Democracy -, #2

      Corporatocracy: Democracy -, #2

      J. Dhopte
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      This book is the second in the Democracy series, a series of three books.                          Corporatocracy refers to the powerful group of people who run the world's biggest corporations and the most powerful governments. The societies are ruled by a small minority of the wealthiest.  Of the world's 100 largest economies, 71 are corporations while only 29 are countries. More than two-thirds of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments.  So deep is the fusion between the corporations and the state that profits are now created largely by political means. We are living in an era where the interplay between state and corporate power shapes the reality of international relations more than ever.  Government is not really determined by the electorate, but rather by those with power, namely, firms. Corporations not only have the political power to influence states, but also the economic clout to devastatingly affect a state's economy should the state try to oppose an MNC. The economy no longer facilitates human society; humans live to serve the economy. We have gone beyond industrialisation and value-addition to a point where the rules are written by the financiers, and the finance industry. 'Freedom' has been reconfigured to refer to consumer choice rather than the ability to determine how to order one's life. The power of people is being curtailed by the people with power. The corporations procure more revenue than the government. Its global expansion and diversification seem to put state power back and has taken over the country on a geopolitical scale. The power of the state is limited and the MNCs are eroding states' sovereignty.  MNCs determine what the governments should do; this shadowy control over the political and economic interests of the government makes the corporations more powerful than the governments.  In order to kill the economic democracy, Corporate Power rigged the game. Democracy has become enfeebled largely because companies have invested ever greater sums in lobbying, public relations, and even bribes and kickbacks, seeking laws that give them a competitive advantage over their rivals. Our political institutions have allowed themselves to be effectively occupied, or more accurately worsened by these anti-market (and anti-public) institutions.

      This book is the second in the Democracy series, a series of three books.                          Corporatocracy refers to the powerful group of people who run the world's biggest corporations and the most powerful governments. The societies are ruled by a small minority of the wealthiest.  Of the world's 100 largest economies, 71 are corporations while only 29 are countries. More than two-thirds of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments.  So deep is the fusion between the corporations and the state that profits are now created largely by political means. We are living in an era where the interplay between state and corporate power shapes the reality of international relations more than ever.  Government is not really determined by the electorate, but rather by those with power, namely, firms. Corporations not only have the political power to influence states, but also the economic clout to devastatingly affect a state's economy should the state try to oppose an MNC. The economy no longer facilitates human society; humans live to serve the economy. We have gone beyond industrialisation and value-addition to a point where the rules are written by the financiers, and the finance industry. 'Freedom' has been reconfigured to refer to consumer choice rather than the ability to determine how to order one's life. The power of people is being curtailed by the people with power. The corporations procure more revenue than the government. Its global expansion and diversification seem to put state power back and has taken over the country on a geopolitical scale. The power of the state is limited and the MNCs are eroding states' sovereignty.  MNCs determine what the governments should do; this shadowy control over the political and economic interests of the government makes the corporations more powerful than the governments.  In order to kill the economic democracy, Corporate Power rigged the game. Democracy has become enfeebled largely because companies have invested ever greater sums in lobbying, public relations, and even bribes and kickbacks, seeking laws that give them a competitive advantage over their rivals. Our political institutions have allowed themselves to be effectively occupied, or more accurately worsened by these anti-market (and anti-public) institutions.

    Author

    J. Dhopte

    The author J. Dhopte graduated from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (India) with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. He got a Diploma in Marine Engineering and a Master’s in Financial Management also. He started his career in the Merchant Navy, working on the ships. He worked in the Merchant Navy traveling around the world for 10 years. He worked as a Chief Engineer on ships, Chief Engineer in a hotel, and Maintenance Manager in a manufacturing industry.  Currently, he is working as a Professor in Nasik, India. He started writing in March 2020, when the Government ordered a nationwide. Since then, he has written ten books which are going to be published this year.The author J. Dhopte graduated from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (India) with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. He got a Diploma in Marine Engineering and a Master’s in Financial Management also. He started his career in the Merchant Navy, working on the ships. He worked in the Merchant Navy traveling around the world for 10 years. He worked as a Chief Engineer on ships, Chief Engineer in a hotel, and Maintenance Manager in a manufacturing industry.  Currently, he is working as a Professor in Nasik, India. He started writing in March 2020, when the Government ordered a nationwide. Since then, he has written ten books which are going to be published this year.

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