Reconstitution?

["Harry Veeder" <eo200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From these passages it is not clear to me what Benjamin
Barber desires. Does he wish to see the legal entity known
as the 'corporation' reconstituted or eliminated?

Harry Veeder
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>From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Post Keynesian Thought" <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Kuttner, Enron and the Chicago Ideology
>Date: Sun, Feb 10, 2002, 8:10 PM

>
>The problem is the way corporations are constituted under the laws. Not
>regulated, but constituted.
>Enron is a problem that's been around since Henry VIIth.
>
>"The corporation is incompatible with freedom and equality, whether these
>are construed individually
>or socially...It is an enemy of democracy in all its forms. While the arid
>debate about capitalism
>and socialism goes on, the corporation prospers. More than does the problem
>of scale, it threatens
>democracy at its vital center.
>
>"If the corporation is not to defeat democracy, then democracy must defeat
>the corporation -- which
>is to say that the curbing of monopoly and the transformation of
>corporatism is a political, not
>economic, task."
>
>"...the corporate society and the corporate mentality themselves stand
>in the way of active citizenship that is indispensable to strong
>democracy. That dilemma, too, will have to be confronted if democracy
>is to survive. And though through worker's participation, the
>democratization of workplaces, and other schemes  the corporate
>monopoly can be loosened, the ultimate battle - if it is to be
>winnable - will have to be political. It will pit not only democratic
>society against monopolistic corporatism but autonomous politics
>against economic reductionism in both theory and practice.
>
>[Benjamin Barber, "Strong Democracy"]
>
>Ian
>