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The
system of corporate life is a new power for which our language contains no name.
We have no word to express government by moneyed corporations
-- Charles
Francis Adams
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we can help transform the global economy into a global community.
--
Robert Alan |  |
Capitalism
is a thug's economy, a heartless economy, a base and vile and largely boring economy.
It is the antithesis of human fulfillment and development. It mocks equity and
justice. It enshrines greed... Capitalism sucks. Does anyone seriously want to
contest that?
-- Michael Albert
“We
have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term
profit, and one which has a human face.”
-- Kofi
Annan *
“We
must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices
that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits
of globalization.”
-- Kofi
Annan |
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“Business, labor
and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping
to build a more robust global community.”
-- Kofi
Annan
The
greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.
-- Kenny Ausubel
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....the
globalization that characterizes today’s economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty
of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but
rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon
their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious
crises they might generate.
-- Patricio
Aylwin Azócar | 
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We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different
future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative
to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.
-- Maude Barlow |
"I would define
globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants
when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support
the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions."
-- (Percy Barnevik, President of the ABB Industrial Group)
A
single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the
health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing
ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.
-- Sharon Begley
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Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement
based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative
and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we
have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.
-- Medea
Benjamin |
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For complex
reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates
success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard
of measurement. I am no economist, but I venture to suggest that one of the laws
of such an economy is that a farmer is worth more dead than alive. A second law
is that anything diseased is more profitable than anything that is healthy. What
is wrong with us contributes more to the "gross national product" than what is
right with us.
~ Wendell
Berry |
The
liberal political tradition provides no coherent response to the obvious question:
Why should the rights of ownership prevail over the rights of democratic citizenry
in determining who is to manage the affairs of a business enterprise whose policies
might directly affect as many as half a million employees, and whose choice of
product, location, and technology touches entire communities and beyond?
-- Samuel Bowels
If
you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news
for you, we're here to defend wealth.
-- Billy Bragg
If
only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used
by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad
-- Major
General Smedley Butler Why
don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe
a flag with a gas pump on it.
-- Major
General Smedley Butler
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... the 20th century
has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The
growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate
propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
--
Alex Carey, Australian social scientist
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I think there are a lot of strong leaders around the world who have made very
convincing arguments about the weakness of corporate-led globalization and the
compelling nature of alternatives.
-- John
Cavanagh A
huge part of our power came from our moral authority ... the moral issue of debts
as being killers of millions of poor people around the world...I think our power
is also rooted in our intellectual power. I think there are a lot of strong leaders
around the world who have made very convincing arguments about the weakness of
corporate-led globalization and the compelling nature of alternatives.
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John Cavanagh |
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What
is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge
and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy,
political systems, and social and cultural life...
-- Noam
Chomsky |
In
any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety
of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself,
the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions
that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented
in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the
means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.
-- Noam
Chomsky
What
is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge
and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy,
political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation
with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international
society.
-- Noam Chomsky
In considering
how human rights might serve as a 'guiding value' in American foreign policy,
one should not dismiss the historical record, which is ample. There is indeed
a close relationship between human rights and American foreign policy. There is
substantial evidence that American aid and diplomatic support increase as human
rights violations increase, at least in the Third World. Extensive violations
of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the
population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions
or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated with US government support.
The linkage is not accidental; rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious
enough. Client fascism often improves the business climate for American corporations,
quite generally the guiding factor in foreign policy. It would be naïve indeed
to think that this will change materially, given the realities of American social
structure and the grip of the state ideological system.
-- Noam
Chomsky
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There's
two globalizations... The elite globalization represents minority forces. The
elite globalization is about make money... The people's globalization, the democratic
mass globalization is about life values.
-- Kevin
Danaher *
The
global economy works for about twenty percent of the world, for about eighty percent
it doesn't.
-- Kevin
Danaher *
We
have a global economy that is not structured around democratizing and including
people in the decision-making. It's operated in secret.
-- Kevin
Danaher |
There's
two globalizations. There's the globalization of the elites, of the corporations,
represented by the World Bank, the IMF, the World Trade Organization. That's the
global state. It's a secret global government information. There's another globalization
that's grass roots globalization. The Fair Trade Networks, the Sister Cities,
Sister Schools, Citizen Diplomacy, the work we do at Global Exchange, linking
people up at the grass roots. That represents majority forces. The elite globalization
represents minority forces. The elite globalization is about make money. It's
money values. The people's globalization, the democratic mass globalization is
about life values. So you got two paradigms, the money cycle and the life cycle
and they're in contestation.
-- Kevin
Danaher
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Well, we see
an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the
labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
-- Angela
Davis |
| Power
that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of
the people instead of an industrial oligarchy
~ Justice
William O. Douglas |  |
