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Change the rules of the electoral system to replace the current political and economic plutocracy.

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    Neither Revolution Nor Reform: A New Strategy for the Left
    Article by Gar Alperovitz

    For over a century, liberals and radicals have seen the possibility of change in capitalist systems from one of two perspectives: the reform tradition assumes that corporate institutions remain central to the system but believes that regulatory policies can contain, modify, and control...

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    Strategic Corporate Initiative
    Report by Michael Marx, Mari Margil, John Cavanagh, Sarah Anderson, Chuck Collins, Charlie Cray, Marjorie Kelly

    Strategic Corporate Initiative

    The mission of the Strategic Corporate Initiative (SCI) project is to design, inspire, and direct a movement to transform the role of corporations in our society.

    The problem this project is addressing is one that is familiar. Transnational...

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    On the Rampage: Corporate Predators and the Destruction of Democracy
    Book by Robert Weissman and Russell Mokhiber

    Rampant corporate crime. Pollution. Cancer. Sweatshops. Dangerous working conditions. Wealth disparities. Corrupted politics. In a compilation of compelling snapshots from two of the leading reporters on business power, On the Rampage documents the price we pay for living in a corporate-...

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    The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy
    Book by Marjorie Kelly

    Wealth inequality, corporate welfare, and industrial pollution are symptoms-the fevers and chills of the economy. The underlying illness, says Business Ethics magazine founder Marjorie Kelly, is shareholder primacy: the corporate drive to make profits for shareholders, no matter who pays the...

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    The People’s Business : Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy
    Book by Charlie Cray

    More than ever, large corporations wield an unjustifiably excessive influence over our lives. The consequences are indeed frightening-environmental destruction, political corruption, erosion of democracy, increased polarization between rich and poor, declining wages and benefits, increased...