Capitalist functioning requires minimizing worker participation and maximizing minority control.

Evidence

For the economic system, these central problems are nearly exactly reversed. Making U.S. capitalism work involves: insuring the minimal par­ ticipation in decision-making by the majority (the workers); protecting a single minority (capitalists and managers) against the wills of a majority; and subjecting the majority to the maximal influence of this single unrepre­ sentative minority. A more dramatic contrast one would be hard pressed to discover. High school textbooks do not dwell on the discrepancy. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 579

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: how US civics education simultaneously teaches political democracy ideals and quietly prepares students to accept their opposite in the workplace.
• XREF: connects to: The economy is formally totalitarian while politics is formally democratic. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 577; Capitalism structurally requires excess for some and deprivation for others — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1094; Capitalism functionally requires excluding citizens from economic decisions. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 372 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism functionally requires excluding citizens from economic decisions. #corroborates (0.92) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 372
• Capitalism structurally requires excess for some and deprivation for others #expands (0.82) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1094
• Capitalist rationalization attempts to co-opt worker militancy through co-operative management schemes #exemplifies (0.78)
• Capitalism requires disciplining workers into accepting private property and wage relations #corroborates (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 834
• Capitalism requires willing state complicity in producing compliant labor forms #corroborates (0.72) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 162