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> > This is really brilliant. Teaching students about the Communist > Manifesto but using the word "corporation" instead of "bourgeoisie". > > http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/16/marx-on-the-mark/ > ===================== >"The corporation is incompatible with freedom and equality, whether these >are construed individually or socially. Like the night in which all cows are >black, it obliterates the distinction between private and public...it sees >the common talk and common action...of the strong democrat as a grave peril >to its orderly world of clients, profits and planning. It is the enemy of >democracy in all its forms. While the arid debate about capitalism and >socialism goes on, the corporation prospers...If the corporation is not to >defeat democracy, then democracy must defeat the corporation...Democracy >proclaims the priority of the political over the economic; the modern >corporation rebuts that claim by its very existence. [Benjamin Barber, Strong >Democracy, p 256-257] http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2000/2000-November/019858.html
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