On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
It is true that, for example, the biggest Dutch corporations (such
as Royal
Dutch Shell) employ more people and capital outside Holland than
inside it,
and that they don’t exhibit a special loyalty towards Holland other
than
still having their HQ here (partly for tax reasons). But actually
the vast
majority of big multinationals are nationally based and primarily
nationally
owned.
but are they _loyal_ to a country?
The point of the Marx quote was that the country's capitalist
politicians always want us to be loyal to the nation, patriotic. But
these standards do not apply to capital.
Every boss wants his expliotees to be loyal to his corporation, and
hire specialists to ensure that loyalty. The bosses as a class, who
own the state, want us "citizens" (their expoitees) to be loyal to
their "country" and on their behalf the bosses hire an army of
specialiosts klnown as "media." But neither the boss (whose
emoluments are almost entirely based on theft from his company and its
shareholders) nor the bosses' hired managers of the state (whose
purpose is self-enrichment via the revolving-door process) owe any
loyalty in return. Their loyalty is that of Polonius: "To thine own
self-interest be true."
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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