> Yikes, this corporate personhood thing is ludicrous too. I may scream.
^^^^ CB: Corporate personhood can be abolished without abolishing corporations
Monopoly or big corporations are a precursor to socialism in Lenin's argument in _Imperialism_. So, call for big "corporations" that are non-profit and somehow more democratically run and subject to a Bill of Rights like the Government is.
I urge you to lay some fundamental groundwork, like defining "capital" and "classes" ( "1%" vs "99 %"), "state". What _is_ Wall Street ?
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To be fair, the corporate personhood thing, unlike the Fed thing, has a reasonable core that just got extended too far. It's perfectly fair to argue that corporate persons shouldn't have all the rights of natural persons -- that they don't deserve the same protection for their speech, for example. That's where most of the recent upsurge comes from I think -- as a spin-off of the Citizen's Union verdict.
And not having thought it through, they say Abolish Corporate Personhood because it seems like the simple solution and a snappy slogan and people have been saying it in prairie populist circles for decades. What they would mean if they thought it through is "Make a legal distinction between fictional and natural persons, such that the bill of rights can be limited for the former by statute and regulatoin whenever it serves the public interest." I.e., that their rights are not absolute, as they are for natural persons. But that's soporific.
Micha