Wilson and Roosevelt on Corporations

“All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders’ money for such purposes; and, more-over a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it went, an effective method of stopping the evils aimed at corrupt practices.” President Roosevelt

I can’t find the Znet article that featured the Roosevelt quote but Wilson’s words come from Chomsky’s ‘The Corporate Takeover of Democracy’..

A century ago, Woodrow Wilson, then an academic, described an America in which “comparatively small groups of men,” corporate managers, “wield a power and control over the wealth and the business operations of the country,” becoming “rivals of the government itself.”

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I'd like to win social change, realized that from reading Noam Chomsky books, finding Znet and plowing through Michael Albert's appeals for the last ten years or so. I had never really thougt about corporations until an exchange with Michael Albert in the Zforums long ago. I come from a family of plumbers (and teachers and bricklayers and nurses ..) in Pennsylvania, live in Japan (a laid back part) now. Too busy with work and family to be as active as I'd like be.. I am a Graded Direct Method teacher of English (http://gdm-japan.net/). I.A. Richards made teaching English as a New Language worthwhile in 1945 with English Through Pictures(http://englishthroughpictures.com/). Book 3 came out in 1957 an is the core of a Liberal Arts Education using 1000-word vocabulary. You teach and learn with "intellectual rectitude" when using GDM/EP. I use free software. I thinkemacs org-mode and lisp help train my brain. I like gnu social's quitter and quit.im, and Diaspora too.

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