[PEN-L:5220] Re: [Fwd: The Socialist, the Communist, the Nihilist]

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

I too am on the mailing list (a one-way list) from which Tom forwarded
this post, and I felt I had to at least respond briefly to the two
columnists who post this series. I therefore posted the following
comments to the authors, comments which might be of interest here.

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Multinational Monitor and Focus on the Corporation, including your
columns, are invaluable sources of information, and you are performing
an essential public service.

This particular column, however, brings out sharply the essential
irrelevance of the implicit politics. Corporations, as such, of course
are not the problem. Were such a thing as totally individualist
capitalism (non-corporate capitalism) possible, which it is not,
it would be every bit as vicious as corporate capitalism. In fact,
a focus on the corporation goes to conceal the fact that it is
not the corporations but the men and a few women who are
their primary owners who do the damage that this column ascribes
to corporations as such.

Still, I look forward to your columns. I can use them to expand
my concrete knowledge of capitalism as it is now, and look to
other sources for an analysis of why it is as it is.

In appreciation.

Carrol Cox
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I have been subscribing to the *Multinational Monitor* for many years,
and when a year ago I tried to cut down drastically on files of old
magazines, found myself wanting to keep *all* the *Monitors*, and
there were so few worthless pages in each that it was not worth while
to cull them. But their politics are really terrible -- and the "focus
on
corporations" is all too useful a screen hiding the evils of capitalism,

corporate or otherwise. This particular post, going back to Bryant,
brings this weakness of "anti-corporatism" as opposed to "anti-
capitalist" out strongly.

Carrol