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To bring back the d [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]nds for democratic governance and for
economicpoliticaland cultural equality and justice is not to sug-
gest a return to some golden age. The meanings in each instance
have to be reinvented to deal with contemporary conditions and
potentialities. Democracy in ancient Athens has little to do with
the meanings we must invest that term with today in circumstances
as diverse as S?o PauloJohannesburgShanghaiManilaSan
FranciscoLeedsStockholmand Lagos. But the stunning point
here is that right across the globefrom ChinaBrazilArgentina
Taiwanand Korea to South AfricaIranIndiaand Egyptin the
struggling nations of eastern Europe as well as the heartlands of
contemporary capitalismthere are groups and social movements
in motion that are rallying to reforms expressive of some version of
democratic values.
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US leaders havewith considerable domestic public support
projected upon the world the idea that American neoliberal values
of freedom are universal and supremeand that such values are to
die for. The world is in a position to reject that imperialist gesture
and refract back into the heartland of neoliberal and neoconserva-
tive capitalism a completely di?erent set of values: those of an
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