Corporations Are Antisocial Gangsters—18 ( 17)Aphorisms to Win the Debate
Charles Brown Corporations Are Antisocial Gangsters—18 Aphorisms to Win the Debate http://bricksoftruth.com/2011/10/17/corporations-are-antisocial-gangsters%E2%80%9418-aphorisms-to-win-the-debate/ Like · · Share · 49 minutes ago If corporations are people, then they surely are antisocial gangsters—and we should treat them accordingly. However, too many Americans worship at the altar of capitalism, summarily rejecting any criticism directed at a “job creator.” To help them see the light, share these 18 aphorisms. 49 minutes ago · Like 1) Of all supervillains, one stands out as the most diabolical. He uses his genius intellect—the fusion of many brains—to seize control of everything in the world. Laws mean little to him and morality means even less. When necessary, he can clone any part of himself at will. Those whom he cannot defeat, he bribes with his immense wealth. No one can reason with him or slay him, and no prison can hold him. His alter ego is a charitable, patriotic, god-fearing, law-abiding entrepreneur. The public idolizes him, granting him every wish. He owns the politicians. And his name is Mr. Corporation. 48 minutes ago · Like 2) The 14th Amendment led to corporations winning the status of real humans. These “golems” then accepted many of our privileges but few of our responsibilities. So, given that we have egregiously spoiled our corporate offspring, how can anybody now be surprised to learn that they have grown up to become antisocial gangsters? 3) A robot follows a program and lacks a conscience. Corporations are no different. All of their programs are fundamentally the same, centering on maximization of profits—and any acts of compassion carried out while executing such programs are just attempts to divert attention as the machines plunder. 4) “Competition is a sin, therefore you must destroy it,” said John D. Rockefeller, America’s first billionaire. This dictum became the first commandment in the holy bible of capitalism. And with the blessings of our bribed government, corporate America has nearly vanquished this sin. Charles Brown Competition is a sin. Monopoly is virtue. 5) In the real world, the bedrock of free market capitalism is not competition, but rather price fixing and monopolization. Charles Brown Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism A POPULAR OUTLINE I. CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCTION AND MONOPOLIES http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch01.htm The enormous growth of industry and the remarkably rapid concentration of production in ever-larger enterprises are one of the most characteristic features of capitalism. Modern production censuses give most complete and most exact data on this process. I. CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCTION AND MONOPOLIES www.marxists.org The enormous growth of industry and the remarkably rapid concentration of pr...See More 44 minutes ago · Like · Charles Brown As soon as this process of transformation has sufficiently decomposed the old society from top to bottom, as soon as the labourers are turned into proletarians, their means of labour into capital, as soon as the capitalist mode of production stands on its own feet, then the further socialization of labour and further transformation of the land and other means of production into socially exploited and, therefore, common means of production, as well as the further expropriation of private proprietors, takes a new form. That which is now to be expropriated is no longer the labourer working for himself, but the capitalist exploiting many labourers. This expropriation is accomplished by the action of the immanent laws of capitalistic production itself, by the centralization of capital. One capitalist always kills many. Hand in hand with this centralization, or this expropriation of many capitalists by few, develop, on an ever-extending scale, the cooperative form of the labour process, the conscious technical application of science, the methodical cultivation of the soil, the transformation of the instruments of labour into instruments of labour only usable in common, the economizing of all means of production by their use as means of production of combined, socialized labour, the entanglement of all peoples in the net of the world market, and with this, the international character of the capitalistic regime. Along with the constantly diminishing number of the magnates of capital, who usurp and monopolize all advantages of this process of transformation, grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of the working class, a class always increasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist production itself. The MONOPOLY of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm Economic Manuscripts: Capital Vol. I - Chapter Thirty Two www.marxists.org Capital Vol. I : Chapter Thirty-Two (Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation) 6) International corporations are not actually working to transform Third World countries into likenesses of America; instead, these corporations are doing just the reverse. 7) The principal objective of incorporating is to divorce authority from accountability. Within a corporate structure, officers can direct misdeeds that would bring incarceration or bankruptcy through fines to a sole proprietor. Not only is our legal system unable or unwilling to criminally charge corporate officers, it is also hesitant to assess warranted fines that may injure the entity, leading to layoffs. This corporate authority without accountability fulfills the wet dreams of scoundrels (i.e., free market capitalists). 8) There will rarely ever be masterful bank heists like those shown in Hollywood movies—for brilliant thieves know that it is much easier to steal wealth by incorporating fly-by-night businesses. 0) Corporations are blackmailing everybody: “Do not dare to punish us for our crimes, or we will pack and leave, ruining your local economies.” Due to our fear of challenging such threats, we now treat all corporations as if they are “too big to fail.” By calling themselves "too-big-to-fail" they have given us a modern definition of monopoly corporation. Monopoly (game) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity. 12) To stay robust, capitalism must constantly evolve: bad business needs to die to make room for good business. When we permit an inefficient or antisocial corporation to persist, we degrade our capitalist system. Naturally, a sick corporation will struggle and bargain for its life, so we must resolutely carry out involuntary commercial euthanasia. Charles Brown : Even more, the SYSTEM of corporations is sick, moribund,decayed , rotten. We live in the Night of the Living Dead period of capitalism. It should have been euthanized long ago. So, now Zombie corporations , Frankenstein Corporate Persons , Private Vampires, want to suck our blood. 13) A corporation has much more capacity than a lone person does to harm society; nonetheless, our laws target bunnies instead of wolf packs. 14) If the death penalty does deter atrocious crimes, why are we not executing the CEOs of Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, Xe, and BP? 15) Do not let your corporate employer fool you: to it, all workers are nothing more than undifferentiated, replaceable parts. 16) Corporate America would pounce on any opportunity to employ slaves; the massive outsourcing of jobs to overseas sweatshops proves this. 17) While we are treating corporations like people, they are treating us like objects. 18) I will agree to grant corporations the status of a person on the same day that we devise a way to incarcerate the bad ones. Since our plutocrats keep insisting that we treat corporations as people, we must start insisting that corporations behave morally. And this requires that we police their actions as strictly as we do those of flesh-and-blood beings. As Featured On EzineArticles Kenneth Rotar recently introduced his first book, Bricks of Truth, a collection of 1000 aphorisms. In 1965, when he was nine months old, he was diagnosed with a severe form of muscular dystrophy. Though it was unlikely that he would survive past his teen years, he has lived a full life. Throughout that time, he steadily lost most of his muscles and is now nearly paralyzed; nonetheless, he completed this book of philosophy at the age of 46, unabashedly sharing his unique perspective on diverse topics. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
