"In recent years, there has been an increase in legal rulings regarding the concept of corporate personhood. Some have argued that this is linked to the strange rise of companies creating human-like personalities on Twitter for branding purposes. This is an interesting connection to make—both effectively create some semblance of a persona and build support for an otherwise faceless company.43 However, these phenomena are not tied on a more material level. One is a savvy marketing strategy, made to keep brands in the minds of younger consumers as they ignore traditional advertising and scroll through social media. The other, a centuries-old legal fiction meant to strengthen the freedoms corporations enjoy by extending to them some of the freedoms previously only limited to citizens. With the tactics shown in Prop 22’s campaign, however, the ideological and the political are bound together through their weaponization of notions of freedom. The hold of the private sphere on voters was exerted both on the deeply personal and broad, structural levels. A reflection from Theodor Adorno puts it simply: “People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.”44 As has been demonstrated many times during this pandemic, many may link capital’s and business’s freedom to go on unimpeded with their own."

https://monthlyreview.org/2021/02/01/manipulations-of-freedom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=manipulations-of-freedom

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, ROAR has put together a special series commemorating this historic revolutionary episode. The series will continue to be updated until May 28. Vive la Commune!
https://roarmag.org/paris-commune-150/

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