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    Challenges→Capitalism conflicts with democracy.

    Democracy requires that people have roughly equal power to affect the political process, or at least that inequalities not reflect morally irrelevant features such as race, gender, and class.

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    Democracy(Derrida's account of the internal tension within democracy, Rogues, p. 100–101)
    A political form that calls for the sharing of power, the giving of reasons, and universalization — requiring power to be exercised through communication in an assembly, yet also requiring force and sovereign decision.
    Inequality(what might exist in a democracy, but shouldn't be based on certain traits)
    An unequal distribution of something valuable (like power or resources) between different groups of people.

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    Political process(what people need equal power to affect)
    The ways that decisions get made in government, including voting, lobbying, campaigning, and the institutions that shape laws and policies.

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    The third point about domination mentioned above is also deployed by socialists to say that capitalism conflicts with democracy (Wright 2010: 81–4; Arnold n.d. [OIR]: sect. 4; Bowles and Gintis 1986; Meiksins Wood 1995). Democracy requires that people have roughly equal power to affect the political process that structures their social life—or at least that inequalities do not reflect morally irrelevant features such as race, gender, and class. Socialists have made three points regarding the c

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