Isn't It Ironic

Isn't it ironic this caricature of the Republican vs. Democratic Parties. The Corporate Capitalists vs Anti-Corporate Socialists.

In the first place these are strange mixes of words to me. Corporate Capitalists and Anti-Corporate Socialists. Thinking of Corporations as pillars of capitalism is odd. Aren't they also pillars of socialism? Remember the USSR? Corporate command and control takes a page from the Soviet School of Management. Is their a difference? Here is the dictionary statement defining socialism. It states that that socialism is "a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole"

Of course, legal ownership of a corporation is in shareholders. But if we think of "ownership" in Bastian sense where property is defined as "the right a laborer has to the fruits of their own labors". Then this definition of property and ownership applies to the collective of employees within the corporation. Ultimately, command and control determines how much property each employee is allowed. Again... doesn't this model sounds more like the The Union of Soviet Socialists of decades past?

And so, the irony. Shouldn't it be Democrats "loving" socialist corporate America and Republicans "hating" socialist corporate America?

I think it's time for another Hegelian Dialectic on the ideas of Marx. We know from socialist experiments of the past century that their are profound problems with the implementation of Marxism. We also ought to recognise that the major difference between the model of the USSR and the model of Corporate America is that Corporate Socialist Unions are smaller and more numerous. Meaning that that we can choose more readily which Socialist Union we want to be part of.

But is this really as good as it gets? Or is it time to move beyond political caricature and recapture the profound thinking of our founding fathers. These altruistic, yet realistic men had tremendous faith in logic and reason. And by virtue of logic and reason they did not destroy the concept of country. They created a new concept of country built by the people and for the people. Ultimately when we consider the contributions corporations make. Their real purpose is not to make money. Their real purpose is to enrich peoples lives. And by enriching lives, money naturally follows. But structurally we can do better. We must believe we can do better and renew enlightened thinking on how our corporations are governed.