Re: Walden Bello on dismantling corporations and their proxies

Ian says: >So what's your meta-reformist plan to get us beyond M-C-M' Yoshie? First of all, I think we (in the USA) have to get more serious about reform struggles at local & national levels. When we have no power base, no mass movement in this country (USA), we can't "craft a set of rules a

Re: Re: Walden Bello on dismantling corporations and their proxies

Fair enough, but I have more humor at the moment than time. The funny thing is that I've been studying and thinking about these questions for over 20 years and have written next to nothing. (2 - 1/2 very obscure articles.) I promise that, if I ever get some time off, I'll give your challenge th

RE: Re: Walden Bello on dismantling corporations and their proxies

>Marxists would be free to study and write about M-C-M'. > > > >Peter > > Seriously, Peter, you criticize Bello for being "much too reformist," > but your program -- "to socialize (which is not necessarily to put > under public ownership) corporations national and transnational, and > to craft a

Re: Walden Bello on dismantling corporations and their proxies

>Marxists would be free to study and write about M-C-M'. > >Peter Seriously, Peter, you criticize Bello for being "much too reformist," but your program -- "to socialize (which is not necessarily to put under public ownership) corporations national and transnational, and to craft a set of rule

Re: Re: Walden Bello on dismantling corporations and their proxies

Marxists would be free to study and write about M-C-M'. Peter Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > All that without abolishing M-C-M'? > > Yoshie

Re: Walden Bello on dismantling corporations and their proxies

>Me, I would begin talking about concrete steps to socialize (which is not >necessarily to put under public ownership) corporations national and >transnational, >and to craft a set of rules and governing procedures to make >possible trade without >the lash of global competitiveness that has pois

Re: Walden Bello on dismantling corporations and their proxies

I appreciate the spirit behind Bello's piece (as exerpted here), but, stripped to its elements, it strikes me as much too reformist. It hearkens back to the pre-1982 dispensation as a sort-of golden age, and it presents as its agenda all those progressive things that governments were supposed to

Walden Bello on dismantling corporations and their proxies

Should corporate-led institutions be reformed or disempowered? It's not off the wall to think of dismantling corporations [Part II of The most crucial task facing the world's NGOs] by Waldon Bello The CCPA Monitor, February 2001, pp 14-16 The battle against