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Occupying the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

by Brayton Shanley

One of our most cherished institutions under continual attack in the 1960’s was corporate capitalism. The left seemed relentless in its attack on the profit-making, frenzy of greed that is enthroned in the American corporation. No one seems to deny the existence of too much money on the top and too little on the bottom. Twenty-percent of the world’s people control eighty-per cent of the world’s money and resources. I think of the prophetic words of Jacques Ellul: “Unjust economic systems are as violent as a rampaging army.” Money made and kept at the top in the face of desperate human need is a grave form of violence. But, in our postmodern world, capitalism is accepted and embraced without critique as the economic heart and mind of our globalized economy.

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