Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 19 10:45:47 PST 2001


Marta Russell wrote:


>And this from Ralph Nader " At Citizen Works, we remain focused on
>building citizen participation in power to advance justice." and
>then a list of goals the last of which is:
>
>10. Strengthen investor-shareholder rights, remedies and authority over
>managers and officers and boards of directors so that those who own the
>companies also control them.
> http://www.citizenworks.org
>
>hmmm ...excuse me but isn't it investors who demand the highest
>returns (profits) on their investments. Don't the CEOs and managers
>work for the investors? Are investors going to reverse the damage
>on people and the planet by having more control over management?
>Hell no, they are Wall Street.

Wow. Thanks for pointing this out. Ralph moves from the petit bourgeoisie to promoting the interests of big rentiers, while using a rhetoric of democracy. Nice trick.

At least they've got a prominent disability rights component.

Doug



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