Die Kraft der Demokratie

Liberal democracy makes us unfree, greens start forest fires, feminists are totalitarian, the rich are discriminated against – this is the twisted world of right-wing propaganda. And while we passionately debate such distortions, the market is mutating into a power economy: Big Data and Big Money have upended the democratic order. The economy regulates the state. Authoritarians are pressing in on democracy from all sides. But why do liberals and the left remain so defensive? Are conservatives shifting further to the right? The weakness of the Democrats is far more dangerous than the volume of the reactionaries, warns Roger de Weck. His book reveals the methods and vulnerabilities of the right. Those who wish can indeed stop them in their cultural struggle against liberalism. To prevent the outdated from hijacking the future, democrats must work on the democracy of tomorrow, making it action-capable. Only in this way can we respond to the authoritarians, together with the rising generation of Greta. Because nature, says bestselling author de Weck, must become a participant in democracy. His book provides clarity – and confidence.