It is important to note that capitalism can try to sell us what they want, as they want to. The democracy comes in with the fact that it's _our_ choice to buy the product and, if buying the product, whether we want to also buy into the behaviour and morale.
People are not merely mindless followers. We have choices and we excercise that choice when we purchase anything (if we choose to purchase anything). This is, basically, democracy in action.
It is up to the companies to try to sell us something we want. If we don't want it, then we don't buy it (or at least, don't buy more of it after trying it once) and the product fails. We control capitalism much more than it controls us, I think.
Therefore, we can have capitalism within democracy and democracy within capitalism.
And IIRC from my Anthropology course, there are socieites that exist that are not technically democracies and which do not have capitalism (generally very small scale groups, I think). So I guess "neither" works, too. |
