... cannot be gifted to an unwilling people or imported into a culture not ready for it. It depends on the passion of people who strive for liberty [...]" (190). Most importantly, democracies grow from the inside out and from bottom up rather than from outside in and top down (194). Barber observes 'freedom' (as it is perceived globally by the West) is not marked by the presence of accountable democratic government but by the absence of all government (restraints on the market) which effectively equates government with anarchy (179). In this sense, national government becomes an instructed instrument of the private sector. Barber views this as problematic, as he believes the appropriate role of national government to be a participatory assembly of the public sector. Barber criticizes a consumerist understanding of democracy because it misunderstands 1) voluntary choice, which is actually constrained by marketing, merchandizing, etc. and reflects ...

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