Uh, that would be a question for politics. Not our department. If the Nader left sometimes seems almost obsessively anticorporate, it's with good reason. Economically, we want business to thrive, but politically, we need to minimize its power as a reactionary political force. And we need radicals to remind us of that.
Neoliberals are often too quick to accommodate to power.
My first boss, the radical journalist I.F. Stone, stayed far from White House dinners and inside sources. He pieced together hard truths from the public record. So if the terms of global capitalism are finally becoming debatable, we can thank the young radicals for forcing the issue. Defenders of the prevailing global order now feel compelled to offer decent space to dissenters. Even The New Republic , as the saying goes, published World Bank dissenter Joe Stiglitz.