Re: "Other Economies Are Possible!"

* US * wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:21:58 -0800, Dan Clore
<clore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Bob Kolker wrote:
>>> * US * wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:10:32 -0500, Nospam <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>>> Bob Kolker wrote:

>>> Not really. If one does not do business with the companies that hire 
>>> these people then their compensation should not affect you at all. If 
>>> enough people do not do business with these companies then the CEO-s 
>>> won't be working there long.

>> Not really good enough. Cor****ations use this thing called the State to

>> ensure that one has no choice but to sup****t, regardless of whether one

>> does business with them or not. This is obvious enough in cases like 
>> Halliburton, but also true of cor****ations in general. See _The 
>> Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay 
>> Rich and Get Richer_ [online free at 
>> http://www.conservativenannystate.org/
]. Wal-Mart alone has garnered
at 
>> least $1 billion in cor****ate welfare 
>> [http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/cor****ate_subsidy/walmart.cfm
]. One 
>> should also note that in a market economy, unequal concentration of 
>> wealth itself distorts market forces in favor of the wealthy. Kevin 
>> Carson refers to the confusion between a truly free market and really 
>> existing, state-guided markets, with government interference in favor
of 
>> cor****ations, as Vulgar Libertarianism. He has a blog that often covers

>> this and related subjects [http://mutualist.blogspot.com/
].
> 
> Thanks for posting this.

No doubt, it would make a great deal of difference if sup****ters of 
solidarity economics would boycott cor****ations and ****ft purchasing to 
the sort of institutions described in the article (workers cooperatives, 
etc.), a type of selective purchasing sometimes referred to as a 
buycott. Also, cor****ations often sell products as loss leaders, losing 
money on their sale, but more than making up for it with the increase in 
business from customers drawn in by the loss leaders. (Wal-Mart uses 
this strategy extensively.) Activists can selectively purchase only the 
loss leaders, thus costing these cor****ations money in a way that the 
cor****ations can hardly complain about it.

However, relying on these strategies alone will not likely do the job: 
we need to end the constant state interference in the market on behalf 
of cor****ations.

-- 
Dan Clore

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