ENGAGE US #8: More Questions
 
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What is property? Who decides if it's public or private? How did other generations decide? How did corporate leaders get their decisions on investment, production and jobs to be regarded as private? How much legal and moral liability should shareholders bear beyond their own investments and consciences?

What roles did railroad, banking, mining and other corporations play in the federal government's abandonment of free women and men in the South? In the writing of the Southern states' apartheid constitutions? In the exploitation of Native peoples? Of immigrants from Asia and the Global South?

Who were the Knights of Labor? What did they have to say about railroad, banking, grain and telegraph corporations? About the control of knowledge? Who were the Populists? Why did they risk their farms and jobs to stop the corporation from becoming the dominant institution of the land? What happened to them? Who were the Progressives? Why did they concede that giant corporations were inevitable, and settle for making them a little less dominant?