A call to everyone who refuses to accept that this is the best democracy can be —
to those who know a better, fairer system isn’t just possible, it’s overdue.
The Book
Around the world, citizens vote, protest, and hope — yet nothing truly changes. The rich grow richer, wars continue, and no matter which party wins, governments serve the interests of their financiers rather than the people they claim to represent.
Breaking Democracy’s Chains exposes how political parties have captured democracy itself, transforming representation into ritual and serving elites instead of citizens. Drawing on history, political theory, and real-world examples, Metin Pekin dismantles the illusion that parties are guardians of freedom — revealing how they manufacture division, suppress dissent, and act as gatekeepers to power.
But this isn’t a book of despair — it’s a blueprint for liberation. Pekin presents a bold No-Party Model of democracy built on direct accountability and genuine citizen power, showing how democracy can finally be freed from its own machinery.
BREAKING DEMOCRACY’S CHAINS
Freeing and Fortifying Democracy Against Hidden Capture
Modern democracy is on life support. This book tears away the illusion of freedom to reveal how political parties have captured power — and how we can reclaim it.
A work by Metin Pekin — on freeing democracy from its own machinery.
About Metin Pekin
Metin Pekin earned his BA in Political Economy from the University of Greenwich before becoming a serial entrepreneur, founding and growing several companies from the ground up. His decades in business revealed how economic power inevitably shapes political power.
Combining academic insight with real-world experience, Pekin noticed a troubling pattern: no matter which party won, inequality deepened, surveillance expanded, whistleblowers were punished, and wars continued. Reformers who tried to make real change were pushed aside, while party insiders controlled who could even compete for power.
In Breaking Democracy’s Chains, his first book, Pekin makes a powerful, well-researched case that true democracy can only emerge by breaking the grip of political parties and returning power to the people.