CONCERNED SCHOLARS, WRITERS AND ACTIVISTS 2000
>>We, the undersigned, are appalled at the continuing national
campaign by Ralph Nader and the Green Party.
Signatories (list in formation)
Benjamin Barber, Rutgers University
************* Now this is depressing. Barber wrote in Strong Democracy:
"The corporation is incompatible with freedom and equality, whether these are construed individually or socially. Like the night in which all cows are black, it obliterates the distinction between private and public...it sees the common talk and common action...of the strong democrat as a grave peril to its orderly world of clients, profits and planning. It is the enemy of democracy in all its forms. While the arid debate about capitalism and socialism goes on, the corporation prospers...If the corporation is not to defeat democracy, then democracy must defeat the corporation...Democracy proclaims the priority of the political over the economic; the modern corporation rebuts that claim by its very existence. [p 256-257]
Isn't this precisely what Nader's been talking about for all these years?
Ian