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Book in our attention, as we did previously, to production, the 

 many, in the capacity of workers, are the servants 

 or subjects of the few. 

 NOW in politics And now let us turn back to the domain of 



similar demand politics. We shall find that WC do SO pOSSCSSed of 



and supply; & new c ] ue tQ ^ true nature anc j extent of the 



powers of the many there. For we shall find that 

 in civil government, just as in economic production, 

 the process involved is a process of supply and 

 demand ; and that whilst there is a certain kind of 

 political demand in respect of which the many are 

 paramount, and act as a true democracy, their 

 power in the business of supply is never more than 

 partial, and is in most cases illusory. 

 but the truly The first point of which we must here take 



democratic .... , 1 i_ i 1 i 



demand in notice is this that though the analogy between 

 ' 3 ' economic production and civil government is a 

 genuine one, it is not to be found in the pheno- 

 mena in which we should naturally be tempted 

 to look for it. What we should naturally be in- 

 clined to do would be to take the demand for laws 

 and policies as the counterpart to the demand for 

 commodities, and the framing of such laws and 

 the carrying out of policies as the counterpart to 

 economic supply ; the first of these, like the demand 

 for commodities, being simple and spontaneous ; the 

 second difficult, like the manufacture of them. But 

 in arguing thus we should be wrong. 



The demand for laws and policies is, as we 

 have seen already, by no means a simple thing, 

 like the demand, let us say, for a particular kind 



