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Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of
corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by
controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But
corporate power also reaches into civil society and politics in
many ways that greatly constrain democracy. In Organizing the 1%,
William K. Carroll and J.P. Sapinski provide a unique,
evidence-based perspective on corporate power in Canada and
illustrate the various ways it directs and shapes economic,
political and cultural life. A highly accessible introduction to
Marxist political economy, Carroll and Sapinski delve into the
capitalist economic system at the root of corporate wealth and
power and analyze the ways the capitalist class dominates over
contemporary Canadian society. The authors illustrate how corporate
power perpetuates inequality and injustice. They follow the
development of corporate power through Canadian history, from its
roots in settler-colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous
peoples from their land, to the concentration of capital into giant
corporations in the late nineteenth century. More recently,
capitalist globalization and the consolidation of a market-driven
neoliberal regime have dramatically enhanced corporate power while
exacerbating social and economic inequalities. The result is our
current oligarchic order, where power is concentrated in a few
corporations that are controlled by the super-wealthy and organized
into a cohesive corporate elite. Finally, Carroll and Sapinski
offer possibilities for placing corporate power where it actually
belongs: in the dustbin of history.
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