" Today, rather than a democracy we have a plutocracy (rule by moneyed interests) in which some of the formal elements of democracy nonetheless remain. Needless to say a real democracy ... is impossible where income, wealth, and power are concentrated and where inequality is growing, that is, in the normal ways of things under capitalism "

― Fred Magdoff , What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment