Tariq Ali Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

  Tariq Ali

  People, Democracy, Phases

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

• Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a version of concentrated economics. And this means that any alternative - alternative capitalism, left Keynesianism, intervention by the state to help the poor, rolling back the privatizations - becomes a huge issue. The entire weight of the extreme center and its media is turned against it, which in reality now is beginning to harm democracy.

  Tariq Ali

  Mean, Reality, Media

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments in Germany, which have been in power for a long time and still are even as we speak. That is the real problem: that there is no serious opposition in Germany at all. And the Left party is divided.

  Tariq Ali

  Real, Party, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

  Tariq Ali

  Lying, Heart, Order

  Tariq Ali (2011). “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad”, p.75, Verso Books

• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

  Tariq Ali

  Meaningful, Fighting, Justice

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.3, Verso

• The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

  Tariq Ali

  Democracy, Oppression, Function

• Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

  Tariq Ali

  Twilight, Democracy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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