Comments on: Social movement oligarchy http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/social-movement-oligarchy/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dwighttowers http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/social-movement-oligarchy/#comment-3588 Mon, 07 May 2012 14:59:50 +0000 http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/?p=4821#comment-3588 Yes, I may have oversold the “call me an extremist”/”Am I alone in thinking” line. Melodramatic. What is interesting to me is how the FT is doing some of the most supple thinking on all this – especially in their Life and Arts section on a weekend (a hotbed of radicals- seriously).
We absolutely need a “high pay commission”!!

]]> By: James Doran http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/social-movement-oligarchy/#comment-3587 Mon, 07 May 2012 13:46:15 +0000 http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/?p=4821#comment-3587 I’m not sure this is such a controversial thesis. I’m always hinting to my Trotskyist (SWP/SP) friends that the fact they are in two different parties – with two sets of full timers and two separate newspapers – is a “return of the repressed”, reflecting the competition of different capitals, and that it would be in their best interests to co-operate, but it is the organisational interest which prevents this.

Perhaps the only thing that would prevent the excesses of executive pay in the long term would be the kind of statutory changes to corporate governance that have been long opposed – regulation of pay differentials, worker representation, etc.

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