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Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream |
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by Gar Alperovitz and Thomas Hanna
Email: mbatko (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!) |
29 May 2012
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"The first step toward public ownership is recognizing that it is not the radical departure most imagine it to be. Two of the most cost-effective health providers in the United States—one a far-reaching insurance system, Medicare; the other a direct hands-on healthcare delivery system, the Veterans Administration—are run by the government." |
Private companies also all too frequently run off to China or Mexico looking for cheap labor, leaving behind unemployed workers and wasted cities. Public enterprises stay here, maintaining jobs and sustaining rather than abandoning our communities. Public enterprises do not force cities and states to pay millions in "incentives" to encourage them to locate in a particular area—often only to move on later, leaving discarded people and deteriorating schools, houses, roads and public services.
Also, public enterprises do not spend huge amounts of money undermining the political process through extensive pro-corporate campaign advertising and lobbying. And public corporations are open to public scrutiny, while private corporations keep most of their internal decision-making secret."
to read "Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream" published in: The Nation, May 26, 2012, click on
http://www.thenation.com/print/article/168026/beyond-corporate-capitalis
to hear Richard Wolff on "Occupying Our Future: Not So Wild a Dream," click on
http://wearemany.org/v/occupying-our-future
www.socialistproject.ca
www.progressive-economics.ca |
See also:
http://www.freembtranslations.net
http://www.onthecommons.org
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