But naturally democracy implies many more switches after this. As capitalism has developed, democracy was held back by local authoritarians and by the capitalist's fear that the idea of democracy would make people ungovernable. Now that capital has perfected democratic participation, all previous forms of capitalism can be seen as instances of democracy. It is thus not surprising that democratic think-tanks are able to give good advice to dictatorships like Pinochet's Chile. It is not surprising that Hitler came to power through the democratic operations of the Wiemar republic.
Democracy is now the ideal dialogue of capital.
Participation in this process is speaking the language of the market whether it is participatory, authoritarian or technical. The enemy is isolated, personalized and attacked using claims that are most likely to get automatic reactions from the isolated spectator. Every apparent rebellion that failed, every useless exercise of freedom, reappears in the accounting of capital. Thus the final end of the Soviet Union has given the extended insurance system a quantitative measure of state-capitalism versus private enterprise. And the more they have an incentive to solve the system's problems.