Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.

In 1969 with Ken Keyes Jr.  
The Venus Project: The Redesign of Culture. Fresco promoted his organization by lecturing at universities and appearing on radio and television.

Some feel that his ideas are impractical idealistic and/or borderline science fiction. '
Fresco and his work has been the subject of radio and television programs as well as newspaper and magazine articles in which he has been described as a "dreamer" "eccentric" "utopian" an "idealist" a "crackpot" a "charlatan" yet concurrently a genius a prophet and a visionary. As an outspoken social critic Fresco advocates global implementation of a socioeconomic system of social cooperation technological automation and scientific methodology which he refers to as a 'resource-based economy.