This article both responds to the criticisms of some postmodern scholarship raised by Scatamburlo-D'Annibale and McLaren and suggests the basis for new coalitions to interrupt global corporate greed. The author strives to work within the perspective advanced by these authors in that he exposes the contradictions of corporate capital illuminated by the Enron crisis. Rather than looking to the working classes, who have been largely displaced resulting from the worldwide concentration of capital, the author argues that it is the new “lost generation” of the investor class that needs mobilization. Finally, he argues that it is greed, not profit, that needs resistance from below.
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