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The Montesi Maneuver: a way to think about corporations, markets, participatory economics, and the environment.

Publication: Synthesis/Regeneration
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Montesi Maneuver: a way to think about corporations, markets, participatory economics, and the environment.(Economics of Producing Less)

Article Excerpt
Regarding the future of humanity and of our shared natural environment, there are few threats greater than present-day corporations. One can readily brainstorm many examples of corporations and their horrible environmental actions, like Exxon-Mobil and the role it plays in exacerbating global warming, General Electric and their advocacy of the nuclear industry (including nuclear weapons), and Monsanto and the role it plays in the emergence and horrid consequences of genetically modified organisms.

Proposals for action to oppose this state of near-total corporate dominance tend to be tame compared to the might wielded by these corporate empires. But before successful opposition can happen, successful acts of imagination must happen first, which the political left has been lacking for the most part. In this article, I spell out some new developments in the realm of what might be called "political imagination" and how that can mount a new initiative to hopefully oppose--indeed wipe out--corporate power.

I propose to wipe out corporate power by wiping out the markets in which corporations thrive, using an economic model called "participatory economics" as both the ideological lynchpin to oppose markets and corporations and as a more environmentally sound economy to replace markets and corporations.

A word about corporate power

To oppose corporate power, we must better elucidate the corporate form and its wider operational context. A corporation is a legally defined economic entity with the goal of ever-increasing levels of short-term profit for its shareholders at the expense of everything else--including our shared natural environment. To be sure, not all entities called "corporations" follow or followed this definition, but our focus is those...

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