But we can't stop there. Millions of people before us learned to escape their cultures of oppression. They helped one another decolonize their minds. They analyzed historical and constitutional barriers erected against democratic self-governance. Then they built popular movements to contest the self-proclaimed divine rights of predatory corporate masters.
Democracy can contest corporate domination.
But democracy must be much more than holding elections, or even redefining business. Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. We suggest buying as many of the booklets and posters as you can afford and passing them around to friends and colleagues. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor . Focus on the Corporation appears Tuesdays.