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Demons at work. Cartoon by the late Jack Gibson.

Are corporations a form of cancer?

If corporations aren’t demons then maybe they are cancers. Personally, I think they are demons. As I’ve noted before, they tick most of the boxes to qualify. They are effectively immortal. They possess people – making those people act evilly in ways they wouldn’t dream of acting if they weren’t possessed. Corporations torment people as a matter of course and don’t hesitate to harm any other living creatures and the Earth itself in pursuit of their abstract goal. If corporations are answerable to some grand boss “devil” then the head honcho of the hell they create…

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We aren’t helpless

Love is the only way out, I said. Which sounds so wishy-washy and feelgood and motherhood that, unless you think about it, it doesn’t necessarily mean anything. So here’s what it means. We can take as a given that we live in a world ruled by greed. Greed has flowered into a vast monstrosity in our lifetimes. It has created a system in its own image – an empire of money and power that is so all-pervasive it seems as if it can’t be beaten. It is beyond huge. It appears to own everything. It appears…

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Why didn’t communism work?

The trouble with bad and greedy people is that they never seem to rest. It doesn’t appear to matter how you organise a society, they always manage to swing the system to their advantage. If a social system is designed to benefit everybody, the greedy ones will pervert it so they get more of the benefits with less effort. Ultimately, they will parasitise any system – no matter how well-designed it might have been in the beginning – harnessing all of its apparatus for their own good. In the case of our so-called “democracies” you can…

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