Thoughts on Multi-national Corporations

[mbarrick]

Corporations are not free and private enterprise, they are governments. They are states unto themselves, and collectivist ones at that, beholden to their shareholder citizen-owners, run by plutocratic oligarichical dynasties, constantly at war with each-other. They organized like feudal states, where only those that have part ownership have the right to vote. The shareholders are the House of Lords, the Directors the Royal Family and the CEO is King. Unions are the House of Commons, if there is one. These abtract states transcend the boundries of the old, land-based nations that we imagine ourselves citizens of. They broker power with the old nations at the same level and beyond.
Source: http://www.mbarrick.net/blog/120201/thoughts-multi-national-corporations

Comments

[sciencequeen.livejournal.com]

Very true! National borders blur as we discover how many countries and subsidiaries are operating globally.

My question then is, what can the lay-people do about it? We can only truly affect change from the inside.