GOVT-130 FA3 Lecture 10: 2- October 6th
21 Oct 2016
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Explaining the relationships among capitalism, industrialization, and democracy. Explaining the tables: class positions, why, united states as example, resources for democracy. They had access to land, education, and guns. They had the resources to participate in the political process. The argument is that: there is a certain fertile ground for certain kinds of democracy. And the fertile ground is a relatively even distribution of the resources that promote democratic participation. Those resources are: access to land, education, communication, literacy, technology. Those things usually don"t happen in agricultural society. They are held by very very few people. The only reason it happened in us is that the very few was a bit larger of the section. Not sufficient to have a true democracy but in europe the distribution was much more uneven. This uneven distribution is what makes it hard to form a democracy in an agricultural society.
