[lbo-talk] OWS Teach-In: Where to start?

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 16:16:48 PDT 2011


On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You might mention and explore how the term "corporation" has replaced
>> "capital" in most every contemporary critique or complaint, and what's
>> wrong with that.  I think just bringing it up might get gears turning.
>>
>
> Yeah. Some of the stuff Liza wrote in Students Against Sweatshops about the
> weakness of anti-corporate thought could prove quite timely.

It could be quite simple. So corps are bad. Are privately held companies ok? Don't the Koch bros. (or insert other obvious baddie) have privately held companies? Small ones, then? How small? Hedge fund small? You could start well within a well-worn narrative and push the way out.

-- Andy



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