Click here to access article by Andrew Gavin Marshall from his blog.
God! I loved this piece. The author uses the example of a top executive of the largest multinational food product corporation to illustrate some fundamental principles and practices of current capitalist operations. You will learn how he like other top players in this game are very well connected to the most powerful corporate, governmental, and other political institutions in the world.
He and others like him are the key agents of the international ruling capitalist class, the most powerful of whom are wedded to their instrument of violence, NATO, which is used in areas of the world where their most powerful institutions, the IMF and the World Bank, are unable to be effective. You will learn how the latter act as agents of privatization.
You will learn how this Nestlé Chairman goes to great pains to rationalize his conduct and that of his corporation. As a human being--and he is a human being--one must believe in what one is doing in order to be successful. Thus, self-delusion is a key psychological mechanism that permits him to act in ways that exploit people and nature which results in most of the disasters we see occurring almost daily across the globe. His rationalizations attempt to reconcile the fundamental dictum of all capitalists--"to maximize short-term profits for shareholders"--with social justice and an ecologically sustainable planet.
This brilliant young Canadian is working very hard for us in the 99 Percent and fighting for a healthy planet that can assure the continued existence of the human race. You can be sure that he will get no support from any well established institution to do this work. It is up to us to support him in this great contest between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.
