by Madoc Batcup

Published by Exposure Publishing, April 2007, ISBN 978-1846856808

This book examines the schizophrenia of modern society. We believe in democracy so much that we go to war for it. Yet although we want to dispense democracy abroad, we are increasingly dispensing with it at home. At the same time millions of people work for large corporations where it is money that has the votes. We have failed to question why the democratic aspirations of our civic societies should not apply to our commercial activities as well. We are supposedly civic sovereigns yet we remain corporate serfs.

This book examines the origins of our democracy and of the modern day corporation, and shows where the path of public corporations and private corporations diverged. It looks at how many of the problems of the 21st century, from disenchantment with politics, to the environment, the increasing impersonality of our society and even terrorism are related to the role of the corporation. It analyses how the great power of corporations can be misused, and the impact this is having on democracy.

The book shows how corporations can be reformed to operate in a different way that would more closely reflect the values of the societies they supposedly serve.

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