In general, democratic decision-making in a capitalist democracy is severely limited by the very fact that the commercial, financial, and industrial systems?the central institutions of the society?are in law and in principle excluded from public control or participation, except in the indirect ways in which any system of authority, no matter how autocratic, must be responsive to the public will. The tendencies toward concentration of power just noted, and now commonly discussed, further underscore the fundamental incompatibility of democracy and capitalism, particularly in its modern centralized form. The reliance of this system on production for war with the ideological mobilization of the population that is required, the paranoid fears that must be induced if the system is to be viable, simply indicates the severity of the current American crisis?a world crisis, given American power.
Sacara umum, pengambilan kaputusan demokratis dina démokrasi kapitalis dibatesan pisan ku kanyataan…
Noam Chomsky (lahir 7 Désémber 1928, di Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) nyaéta ahli basa Amérika, filsuf, élmuwan kognitif, éséyis sajarah, kritikus sosial, sareng aktivis politik. Sok disebut "bapa linguistik modéren", Chomsky ogé tokoh utama dina filsafat analitik sarta salah sahiji pendiri widang élmu kognitif. Anjeunna mangrupikeun Profesor Linguistik Laureate di Universitas Arizona sareng Profesor Institut Emeritus di Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), sareng panulis langkung ti 150 buku. Anjeunna parantos nyerat sareng ceramah sacara lega ngeunaan linguistik, filsafat, sajarah intelektual, masalah kontemporer, sareng khususna urusan internasional sareng kawijakan luar nagri AS. Chomsky parantos janten panulis pikeun proyék-proyék Z ti saprak mimitina, sareng mangrupikeun panyokong operasi kami.