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DESCRIPTION:Corporate Coloniality, and the Demotion of Capitalism\n“Corporate 
 coloniality” means the corporations as colonizer, humans as the 
 colonized.\n\nThis seminar that will study the corporate structure, its 
 historical evelopment, and its modes of political control: \n** the 
 distinctive feastures of the corporate structure as they relate to social 
 and political control rather than production. \n** the history of the 
 development of the transnational corporations, and how they relate to 
 global corporatization as a political structure. \n** the differences 
 between global corporatization and capitalism, and how capitalism has been 
 demoted from a ruling to an instrumental function in the economy. \n** how 
 the financial economy has absorbed capitalism and developed modes of 
 profitability no longer dependent on labor exploitation (which still 
 exists) \n** the difficulty in finding an identifiable ruling class 
 composed of humans rather than structures – we face bureaucracy rather 
 than bourgeoisie, social machines in the form of a police-prison nexus and 
 two party spectacles rather than a government (policy is made elsewhere). 
 \n** locked into short-term thinking, how the global socius of corporations 
 constitutes a form of coloniality toward humans, generalizing the former 
 imperialism toward nations, and exacerbating the despoliation of the 
 planet. \n** Finally, the point will be to examine the weak spots in this 
 global structure, by examining real events of recent history that point to 
 them. \n\nSome of the differences between the corporate structure and 
 capitalism.\nCapitalism is a system of production that exploits labor 
 through a wages system in a commodified society. The corporate structure 
 separates profit from labor, shifting profitability to financial 
 operations. \n\nCapitalism developed a private banking system and a banking 
 industry, integrated into its productive economy for the purpose of capital 
 circulation. The corporate structure has elevated an independent financial 
 economy to dominance, a dominance and separation recognized by the US 
 government in 2008in bailing out only financial interests. \n\nCapitalist 
 exploitation commodifies human labor, placing class interests and conflicts 
 at the foundation of political affairs. Corporatization imposes a 
 structural disconnect between people and political institutions. 
 \n\nCapitalism suffers in the event of a civil war because that disrupts 
 the social infrastructures it needs for capital circulation. It profits 
 from wars between nations, selling military products to both sides. The 
 corporate structure shuns wars between nations because they represent 
 national autonomy, which the corporate structure abhores. It welcomes civil 
 wars, however, because they destroy social infrastructures, leaving a 
 society open for corporate operations and debt. \n\nThe capitalist vision 
 of a world government is a United Nations, an assembly of national 
 representatives on the model of a republic. The corporate structure’s 
 vision of a world government is the determination of local politics through 
 centralized corporate control of financial matters – trade, interest 
 rates, currency exchange rates, etc. \n\nThis seminar will run 8 weeks, 
 every Wednesday. There will be a syllabus and readings online, though all 
 will be for voluntary enjoyment. Participants will be encouraged to bring 
 in their own materials for the seminar to examine, along with the material 
 to be presented. \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/22/18767356.php
SUMMARY:Corporate Coloniality, a free seminar on corporate domination
LOCATION:Bay Area Public School (a free university) \nThe Omni \n4799 Shattuck Ave., 
 Oakland \ncorner of Shattuck and 48th St. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/22/18767356.php
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