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    Governments under capitalism tend to adapt their agendas ... — Carmelics
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    Governments under capitalism tend to adapt their agendas to the wishes of capitalists rather than the broader population.

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    • 1.Governments depend on capitalists' investment decisions to raise taxes needed to fund public policies.
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    • 2.Even socialist parties that win elections must remain congenial to capitalists as long as the fundamentals of the economic system remain unchanged.
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    • 1.Pluralist democratic theory (Dahl, Truman) demonstrates that competing interest groups—labor unions, NGOs, consumer advocates—regularly constrain and redirect state policy against capitalist preferences.
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    • 2.Empirical cases like New Deal labor legislation and post-war welfare states were enacted over sustained capitalist opposition, disconfirming a strong structural determination thesis.
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    • 1.The 'structural dependence' argument conflates systemic incentives with deterministic outcomes, ignoring that states possess autonomous bureaucratic interests irreducible to capitalist class preferences (Skocpol, Evans).
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    • 2.State autonomy theory shows that administrative capacity and institutional insulation can enable governments to pursue redistributive agendas even when capitalist investment confidence is threatened.
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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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