<<This interlocking series of contracts has the right of free speech?
<<I think the series of responses Shemano gives in this thread is sillier than neo-classical micro. He describes a total <<phantasy world, just as the micro theorists do. But the world both try to hide is terribly real.
<<This stuff is much worse than people have been asked to leave the list over. Disgusting stuff. I'd say beneath <<contempt, but I don't know what is lower.
I have never seen a corporation speak. I have seen real people speak on behalf of corporations. Why do you believe that those people do not have a right to speak?
What is that word Marxists like to use to describe unreal objects that people think are real? Fetish? You see a bogeyman called a "corporation." You are fetishing the corporation. I see tens, hundreds, thousands of contracts between real people intended to actualize a real end. The entity is an acknowledged legal fiction that minimizes transaction costs. That is all. "Exxon" is simply a shorthand way to describe thousands of real people acting in a united way, and the corporate form provides an expedient way of organizing those real people.