This article is rather good. A beginning of a broader public discussion, one would hope. The discussion of corporations as tools for minority rule must become as prevalent in society over the next decade or two as slavery and abolition (and I mean in the vein of Garrison’s “immediatism”) became before the US Civil War.

I think the discussion must become “popularized”, even in the corporate press, but by that I do not mean it will be at all helpful for it to become co-opted by “reformers” who think minority rule will be dealt with sufficiently by an amendment or two, or through “market campaigns” that have reformers negotiating concessions from corporate boards of directors “on behalf of the People.” Let us radicalize everything. That is, let us get to the “root” (the “radish” in “radical”) and define “democracy,” as this article nicely reports was done, as Rule by the People. To rule is not to vote. To rule is not to “regulate” what others have determined you must abide. To Rule is not to have anyone secretly negotiate concessions from corporate minorities, who will thence continue to Rule and Decide and Govern…and rescind concessions at-will. To Rule is to decide. To Rule in a democracy is to self-govern in a community of the living.

Hopefully there will be generated more valuable public conversations on very “radical” notions. The work ahead is massive. The opposition is powerful. The People are still drowsy with enculturated lethargy. The stakes are enormous.

- Posted by BenGPrice@aol.com, CELDF