"The Corporation" nice film...unanswered questions
It was a filmy night a la "The Corporation" yesterday night at Laura's. The movie was swell and worth its rave ratings, I must say. but methinks its "thesis" begs the question. The birth, growth and development of corporations reflect the process of self-liberation of capital from whatever vestiges of the feudal left in it (save the queen!); with its transcendence (on a global scale that is) of its infancy wrought in primitive accumulation . It was to be the vehicle of economic imperialism and in its forms as MNCs, TNCs, GIEs, etc, it is undoubtedly the engine room of neo-liberal globalisation. My beef is this; just as the commentaries of bourgeois economists and intellectual hackers for capital have been doing these past two weeks posing the "meltdown" as a problem of financialisation , the film poses the problem as that of corporatisation. And even at that the corporation is a devil self-posed as (or that could be) a saint (note the halo that is...