https://portside.org/2017-12-18/capitalism-and-democracy-year-end-lessons

'... 2013 taught millions of Americans that capitalism repeatedly contradicts the democratic idea that majority decisions should govern society as a whole. The system's tendency toward deepening inequalities of income and wealth operated across 2013 in direct contradiction to the will of substantial American majorities.'

Richard D. Wolff,
professor of Economics Emeritus,
University of Massachusetts