Am I a Socialist?

[Floogeldy]

If I am, big fucking whoop!

I don't think corporations should be able to acquire other corporation's stocks.

I think corporations should be closely monitored to insure that they are serving the public good and, if they're not, their charters should be revoked.

I think corporate profits should be capped at a level less than sinful, and the rest paid to lesser management personnel and the average worker.

I think corporations should be prohibited from paying lobbyists.

I think that if the government needs a corporation to perform a function for the people, it should set a fair price and let any willing takers randomly draw from a hat to get the chance to get the job.

This isn't original, but thanks for reading.

[Canuckistanian]

1. Hear, hear!

Corporations should be treated as ordinary persons.

No special treatment.

No tax breaks.

Able to be sued if damages are incurred.

And, speaking of charters, citizens should be able to write their OWN charters.

Until then, there is disparity.

[firefox]

2. Removing corporate personhood

This is a big subject. It was number 13 on Project Censored's list in 2002- http://www.albionmonitor.com/0309a/pc2003.html

[Floogeldy]

3. Thank you

:)

[newswolf56]

4. Absolutely:

The unspoken premise behind the New Deal was its recognition that capitalism is a necessary evil -- that corporations though vital must be rigidly controlled lest class warfare run amok -- and that the ultimate role of government (apart from enabling us to do collectively what we cannot do individually) -- is protection of the people and Constitution from ALL threats foreign and domestic: especially the fascist threat implicit in capitalism.

[donco6]

5. You're posting on DU, dude.

Of COURSE you're a socialist.

Welcome to the enlightened majority!

[Odin2005]

6. Tame Corporations?

Hell, I want to replace them with co-ops. :think:

[Czolgosz]

7. If that makes you a socialist, then Adam Smith was also a Socialist

Here are the words from the pen of the father of capitalism: "the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind, though it cannot perhaps be corrected, may very easily be prevented from disturbing the tranquillity of anybody but themselves." -- The Wealth of Nations