Democracy is threatened not only by the rise of authoritarianism, but also by growing social inequalities. The philosopher Erica Benner (Tokyo, 1962), one of the great contemporary specialists in Machiavelli, warns that economic inequalities, the concentration of power in the hands of a minority and the loss of the idea of the common good corrupt democratic systems from within. Benner visited Barcelona invited by CIDOB, where she reflected on th…
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Democracy is threatened not only by the rise of authoritarianism, but also by growing social inequalities. The philosopher Erica Benner (Tokyo, 1962), one of the great contemporary specialists in Machiavelli, warns that economic inequalities, the concentration of power in the hands of a minority and the loss of the idea of the common good corrupt democratic systems from within. Benner visited Barcelona invited by CIDOB, where she reflected on th…