See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome.

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for that reason determined, in their words, that "we must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years."

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.