Government in the Future by Noam Chomsky

Author:Noam Chomsky
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-60980-224-0
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-04T05:00:00+00:00

Those who do not comprehend this, he says, “may justly be suspected of misunderstanding human nature, and of wishing to make men into machines.”37

Rosa Luxemburg’s fraternal and sympathetic critique of Bolshevik ideology and practice was given in very similar terms. Only the active participation of the masses in self-government and social reconstruction could bring about what she described as the complete spiritual transformation in the masses degraded by centuries of bourgeois class rule, just as only their creative experience and spontaneous action could solve the myriad problems of creating a libertarian socialist society. She went on to say that “Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee.”38 And I think that these remarks can be translated immediately for the somewhat parallel ideology of the “soulful corporation,” which is now fairly popular among American academics, for example, Carl Kaysen, who writes:

No longer the agent of proprietorships seeking to maximize return on investment, management sees itself as responsible to stockholders, employees, customers, the general public, and perhaps most important the firm itself as an institution … [T]here is no display of greed and graspingness; there is no attempt to push off onto the workers or the community at large part of the social costs of the enterprise. The modern corporation is a soulful corporation.39

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