that's a meaningless falsifiable claim. there are valid critiques of the (neoliberal) concept of "just open up the markets and rich merchants will usher in pro

that's a meaningless falsifiable claim. there are valid critiques of the (neoliberal) concept of "just open up the markets and rich merchants will usher in proper democracy", but those need a bit more sophistication than "guys globalization totally failed thanks for coming to my TED talk". democracy itself needs thousands of conditions to flourish. there are no silver bullets for organizing societies.