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The Commodification of Life
by Ethan Ash

Prepare yourself for a new era in the world of marketing and consuming as the Transnational Capitalist elites consolidate more power and wealth through the exploitation of third world nations and the conditioning of loyal consumers. What is their tool? Globalization and your money.

Through the globalization and “free trade” of markets, corporations have established transnational institutions like the WTO and WB through which they can impose sanctions and undermine local environmental laws and cultural traditions. They also usually seek out the countries most easily exploited and most desperate for some kind of economic stimulation. These strategies used for profit maximization often have destructive and immoral consequences. The fragmentation of production chains throughout the world is making national boundaries less relevant and is slowly decreasing national sovereignty over their own markets. This is accompanied by an unprecedented concentration of power among the Transnational bourgeoisie forming a transnational class struggle and putting the power of global destruction in their hands.

Everyday we participate in globalization, lending more oppressive power to Transnational Corporations as we are subjugated just as much as those enduring horrendous sweatshop conditions, the destruction of environments, and the maintenance of global poverty. While third world nations suffer these injustices, our privileged citizens are routinely brainwashed into brand loyalty and conditioned to look past what is really going on. Release yourself from this immoral system and take up arms!


Here are some major corporations worthy of boycott and guilty of such things as pollution, deforestation, animal abuse, lethal tobacco promotion, sweatshop labor, arms sales, and genetic manipulation of foods:

  • Nike
  • Phillips-Van Heusen
  • Disney
  • Guess?
  • The Gap
  • Banana Republic
  • Old Navy
  • Tommy Hilfiger
  • Reebok
  • Levi Straus
  • Liz Claiborne
  • Ralph Lauren
  • Mattel
  • Wal-Mart
  • Roohsing(Hong Kong clothing company)
  • Kohl's
  • Phillip Morris
  • Nestle
  • UNILEVER
  • McDonald’s (along with all other fast food)
  • Shell
  • Adidas
  • Barclay’s Bank
  • Coca-Cola
  • BP
  • GE
  • Camelot
  • American Express

 

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