[lbo-talk] corporate personhood

[J Cullen]

>martin wrote:
>
>>"Corporate personhood" serves as a rallying issue for left movement 
>>organizing. It has an iconic quality that can focus political 
>>activity toward unseating corporations, the servants of capital.
>
>Yes, I think that's the only sensible explanation for why people 
>fixate so much on this issue. Whatever actual policy objectives are 
>being hindered by the alleged prohibition on treating corporations 
>differently from natural people are too obscure and vanishingly 
>slight to justify it.
>
>But I think it's an unfortunate rallying issue. It's not really 
>"corporations" that are the servants of capital, it's capitalists. 
>Why is an unincorporated business better than a corporation?
>
SA

If you know of any large unincorporated businesses in the United 
States, I'd like to know who they are. A business that has not 
incorporated (or set up as a limited liability partnership) in the 
United States has an incompetent lawyer.