Stakeholders – meaning workers and community – the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination,’ we might say – exercised through the mass media.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.
Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.
Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.
People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.
The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them.
Well, they really didn’t have to worry, because the way power politics works, the World Court can’t do anything. Look, there’s one country in the world at the moment which has refused to accept World Court decision-that’s the United States. Is anybody going to do anything about it?
There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
It is only in folk tales, children’s stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.
The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.