# Quote — David C. Korten, The Post-Corporate World

> For those of us who grew up believing that capitalism is the foundation of democracy and market freedom, it has been a rude awakening to realize that under capitalism, democracy is for sale to the highest bidder and the market is centrally planned by global megacorporations larger than most states.

- Author: [David C. Korten](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-c-korten.md)
- Book: [The Post-Corporate World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-c-korten/the-post-corporate-world.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Korten#The_Post-Corporate_World:_Life_After_Capitalism_(2012)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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## More from this book

> In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy and the market economy.

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