![]() ![]() In societies where capitalism prevails, enterprises are very rarely organized democratically. Workplace communities are those collections of interacting individuals comprising enterprises: factories, offices, and stores. The capitalist economic system generates precisely that unequal distribution of income and wealth that creates and sustains a wide gap between formal and real democracy in the world today. However, they usually allow individuals with high levels of income and wealth to use these means to influence others in their voting, whereas individuals with low levels of income and wealth can and usually do wield less influence. Residential communities in many parts of the modern world operate in formal democracies. How real this formal democracy is depends on the inclusivity of the population voting and the concrete reality of voters’ equal influence on the election’s outcome. Universal suffrage is clearly a step toward at least formal democracy because voters elect leaders. Its other, autocracy, exists when a community organizes (or allows) its governance by an individual or subgroup of that community, a ruler. Democracy exists if and when a community organises its self-governance around the full participation, on an equal basis, of all the members of the community. ![]()
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