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What to do about corporate globalization?

No Corps | 03.06.2008 15:11 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

We have protested. We have marched. We have surrounded international elitist meetings with our numbers.

So what is next? Obviously, we have made ourselves heard, but just as obviously, the elitists that have foisted their corporate globalization on us have no intention of listening, much less heeding our calls for economic and social sanity.

So the ball is back in our court-

What will we DO ABOUT corporate globalization?

One good place for us to start:

DON'T FEED THE CORPORATE BEAST!

Then go from there...

No Corps
Homepage: http://www.boycottbush.org/

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kill the beast

03.06.2008 23:09

I agree that consumer boycotts can be useful and is a good start. However boycotts are an individualistic way of struggling, if you do not buy say nike goods, how can you stop others from buying them. also it raises the question of: so you can't buy this good, so what can you buy. Everything produced under capitalism is the result of exploitation. No space is left un-commodiefied. should we choose between good and bad capitalists when they are all parasites. I think collective struggle is better for example during a strike people have to walk past a picket line to scab, this reduces the chances of people doing this. As everyone is collected in a work place it is easier to win over people who might decide to scab.
Whereas someone could easily go and buy nike products and thus the boycott is weakened without anyone knowing. Workers power is greater than consumer power. Workers through interaction with the environment create all wealth under capitalism. Therefore they have the power to stop profits as well.It might be harder to win someone over to a revolutionary position than just not buying goods yourself, but i think it is vital to kill the beast once and for all, through the overthrow of the capitalist system.

marxist?

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Marxism

06.06.2008 20:15

Ah, the missing of the point and applying the wrong answer.

The only place where true marxism has worked is the graveyard because there are no humans.

I personally do not wish to live in an agrarian society with my humanity rendered down to mere survival. So I would opt out of your society, I would ask someone else to produce my food whilst I did my job and would give that person remuneration for that persons effort plus an extra amount so that person could expand/ improve themselves. Now that person may not want my product in exchange so I would trade something interchangeable, say a token.

sounds good, no one getting exploited here.

Exploitation is nasty and society should keep it from getting out of hand, but marxism is a theory that has been tried and has failed because humans are involved, beat that small problem and I will vote for you.

Harry Purvis