Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that it doesn't make any difference how they vote. It's not going to affect policy, so why bother?

In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more rights in the United States and England than they had in Russia, and it was somehow still called socialism.

Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.