[Peace-discuss] Fw: 4th of July Parade -- you'll LOVE this year's theme...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ricky makes the crucial point. If "enterprise" is seen as a jargonized 
term for work, and work is understood as the exercise of our talents of 
head and hands, then we all want to work freely -- we all want to engage 
in free enterprise.  The ideal society is a free association of people 
who use those talents to produce what they want.  The ideal of free 
enterprise has been clearly expressed:

	FROM EACH, ACCORDING TO HER/HIS MEANS;
	TO EACH, ACCORDING TO HER/HIS NEEDS.

Instead, we have to rent ourselves to the owners of capital ("get a 
job"), sell our talents of head and hands to those who control wealth 
and power, so that they, not we, determine what we do.

So what the News-Gazette thinks free enterprise is -- a 
corporate-controlled economy -- exactly denies free enterprise to all of 
us.  Capitalism and democracy are contradictory: the latter says, "One 
person, one vote";  the former, "One dollar, one vote."

Americans do think that free enterprise is an ideal, and they're right. 
  We have to try to show that what they've been told is free enterprise 
is however its contradiction:

	AMERICA SALUTES FREE ENTERPRISE, BUT
	FREE ENTERPRISE = DEMOCRATIC CONTROL
	OF THE ECONOMY, NOT CORPORATE CONTROL

--CGE


Ricky Baldwin wrote:
> How about a large graveyard scene on the back of a
> wagon with the grim reaper sporting a Wal-Mart nametag
> and tombstones with "R.I.P. Free Enterprise - Killed
> by Corporate Welfare and Monopolizing", ghosts could
> be rising up with names like "Mom & Pop Stores",
> "Co-ops", and/or similar stuff ...?
> 
> The thing is, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS FREE
> ENTERPRISE.  It's a fantasy.  A myth.  A vicious lie
> to justify an even greater set of crimes...
> 
> But is there a way to portray some of the crimes? 
> Like corporate mercenaries?  Clearly, without too much
> text?  
> 
> Something to pin names on like Blackwater, Halliburton
> ... Torture, Inc... Occupation Corporation ... Death
> Squads R Us ... Maybe these could be listed
> ("thanked?") as cosponsors of the cemetery ... ?  Too
> much reading required?  Could these be *ads*?
> 
> ...maybe ads ... on the sides of tanks or houses of
> torture ... something military ... ?
> 
> Ricky
> 
> 
> 
> --- Jenifer Cartwright <jencart7 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> which is... AMERICA SALUTES FREE ENTERPRISE!!! (Can
>> you BELIEVE it???!!!)
>>
>> I'll write the check for the entry fee (still $25
>> after all these years) just assuming AWARE will be
>> creating another award-winning float, if someone
>> will offer to take the forms, fill them out, and
>> send everything in. Deadline to enter w/o late fee
>> is June 22nd.
>>
>> Please email me your name and street address if y're
>> willing to have me send the forms and check to you.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jenifer 
>>