LMAO. As ever, Warren Drew's analysis is somewhere between functionally retarded and vegetative.
This stunt costs these CEOs nothing. Trump's business councils met a handful of times, and never with a quorum of their members. Indeed, this is simply going to strengthen the position of Capital.
Workplaces need stability and businesses can't afford to alienate huge market shares, after all, which virtually requires them to embrace an anodyne social liberalism - nothing genuinely radical or transformative, of course, and with a coercive fist inside the velvet glove of bland corporate jargonese.
Soon enough, corporate culture is going to be the only culture anyone has. And the present crisis is the perfect opening for it: the Left is politically impotent, without a base in class politics of any kind. This is why it's so ironic that an 'Antifa' movement - which ostensibly looks back to the post-War Stalinist movement of the same name in Germany - seems to be taking its cues business executives in the struggle against the fash. We have entered an era of private coercion on a mass scale, and it isn't going to stop at the recent resurgence of white supremacy. The same logic will be used to justify exclusionary policies against economic dissenters come the next real economic downturn in the West. And the liberals who have postured as being 'anti-business' with no real analysis behind it are going to embrace it wholeheartedly, lest THE NAZIS rear their ugly heads again.
Business is going to more and more become the vector for 'liberal' social change. And why shouldn't it be? That's the entire idea behind classical liberalism, after all: that the market, left to its own devices, would impose a kind of egalitarianism on society, not out of the goodness of its heart but because it can function in no other way. We're living out this process. And we will increasingly live it, as long as liberals perceive business as the only guarantor of equality. And if it happens to create mechanisms by which Capital can tamp down on legitimate economic unrest at some future date, why, so much the better for it. "Report a Nazi to your nearest Facebook moderator" can easily become "report a food rioter to your nearest Facebook moderator", after all.
These fascists are basically strawmen for business interests, but not in the way you might think. They're not a legitimate contender for State power and are in no position to seize it, but the Left is too weak to openly confront them. So liberals will turn to the loving arms of business to suppress them, and get more than they bargained for in the process.
Trumpism is going to lose to a bizarre army of déclassé left-liberals with Bis Business at its helm. This is inevitable now; capitalism cannot long elevate one of its own to the head of its ranks.
Also, Warren, you're a middle-class Baby Boomer twat. You don't represent "the People". You don't represent jack shit.
This stunt costs these CEOs nothing. Trump's business councils met a handful of times, and never with a quorum of their members. Indeed, this is simply going to strengthen the position of Capital.
Workplaces need stability and businesses can't afford to alienate huge market shares, after all, which virtually requires them to embrace an anodyne social liberalism - nothing genuinely radical or transformative, of course, and with a coercive fist inside the velvet glove of bland corporate jargonese.
Soon enough, corporate culture is going to be the only culture anyone has. And the present crisis is the perfect opening for it: the Left is politically impotent, without a base in class politics of any kind. This is why it's so ironic that an 'Antifa' movement - which ostensibly looks back to the post-War Stalinist movement of the same name in Germany - seems to be taking its cues business executives in the struggle against the fash. We have entered an era of private coercion on a mass scale, and it isn't going to stop at the recent resurgence of white supremacy. The same logic will be used to justify exclusionary policies against economic dissenters come the next real economic downturn in the West. And the liberals who have postured as being 'anti-business' with no real analysis behind it are going to embrace it wholeheartedly, lest THE NAZIS rear their ugly heads again.
Business is going to more and more become the vector for 'liberal' social change. And why shouldn't it be? That's the entire idea behind classical liberalism, after all: that the market, left to its own devices, would impose a kind of egalitarianism on society, not out of the goodness of its heart but because it can function in no other way. We're living out this process. And we will increasingly live it, as long as liberals perceive business as the only guarantor of equality. And if it happens to create mechanisms by which Capital can tamp down on legitimate economic unrest at some future date, why, so much the better for it. "Report a Nazi to your nearest Facebook moderator" can easily become "report a food rioter to your nearest Facebook moderator", after all.
These fascists are basically strawmen for business interests, but not in the way you might think. They're not a legitimate contender for State power and are in no position to seize it, but the Left is too weak to openly confront them. So liberals will turn to the loving arms of business to suppress them, and get more than they bargained for in the process.
Trumpism is going to lose to a bizarre army of déclassé left-liberals with Bis Business at its helm. This is inevitable now; capitalism cannot long elevate one of its own to the head of its ranks.
Also, Warren, you're a middle-class Baby Boomer twat. You don't represent "the People". You don't represent jack shit.