[lbo-talk] Challenge for leftists of all stripes

[Michael Dawson]

> Believe me, in the legal work I do on economic regulation, corporate
> opponents cite their constiutional rights against violations of equal
> protection, free speech, due process and a range of other rights to combat
> economic regulation.  Corporate personhood is indeed one of the deadlier
> weapons against democracy in the United States.  We had a period after the
> New Deal when this was largely abandoned, but it is creeping up on us
> day-to-day and is likely to accellerate in the coming years as more
> reactionary jurists extend their control of the courts.
> 
> Nathan Newman

Well, viva economic regulation, but that, too, is petite-bourgeois.  We
aren't going to regulate corporate capitalism into socialism.  Not even into
European-style welfare state CC.  Your work is doomed for a reason.