Similarly, American Anarcho-communist author Eddie Conlon stresses the potential of decentralized universal healthcare as shown in revolutionary Spain based upon mutual concern without the hand of privatization and organized based through a system of communal federations from the bottom up. ... Expanding upon the self-management of the workplace as a whole, Conlon writes that health-workers in a libertarian structure that invested in healthcare organize their own workplaces which communally federate to "share resources and information, and formulate plans to improve the quality of service...

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Moreover, under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's economy experienced a shift towards a fully agricultural society, which meant that private property was banned and anyone living in cities or towns was immediately forced to move to the countryside and contribute to the country's agricultural production by partaking in the newly formed collective farms. ... The first of which was the emergence of a free market regime, which allowed for privatization of industries and the sale of private property, including state assets, natural resources and common resources, such as water resources and fo...

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The ability to persuade and coerce a population that the current system of government is most appropriate is simply manipulation of the people and we must bear in mind that whatever regime we live under, this must necessarily be the case for us too (through the state and private media, education as a child and more) and so we must not judge others by our own standards. ... Therefore it appears that one condition necessary for democratic legitimacy is a fully competitive process-driven aggregative democracy with perfect information to allow citizens to make a fully informed choice. ...

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But this is exactly where Tocqueville found that the authority of the majority becomes a threat – in the influence on the spread of information that keeps political life alive; the power of thought in shaping societies and organizing individuals: "It is in the examination of the exercise of thought in the United States that we clearly perceive how far the power of the majority surpasses all the powers with which we are acquainted in Europe. ...

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During the 1930's, the New Deal was established to supplement democracy and to promote the formation of interest groups. Policies were made by the government in order to minimize economic disparity in the United States after the Great Depression. Over the course of eighty years this resulted in a dr...

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