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In the original version of feudalism, peasants armed with pitchforks knew where to go for redress or regime change: the feudal lord’s castle on the hill.<\/strong> Though you won’t find this in conventional narratives of the Middle Ages, peasant revolts were a common occurrence; serfs weren’t always delighted to toil for their noble masters.<\/p>\n In the present era of corporate dominance, where can serfs go to demand redress and financial freedom from the neofeudal system? Nowhere.<\/strong> The global corporations that own the land and the productive assets have no castle that can be stormed; they exist in an abstract financial world of stock shares, buybacks, bonds, lobbyists and political influence.<\/p>\n When the agribusiness corporation fouls the local water supply with animal waste, where do the local peasantry go to demand restoration of their water quality?<\/strong> The corporation? What if the headquarters are thousands of miles away?<\/p>\n What impact will 100 serfs gathered outside the modern-day castle have on water quality in a distant land? Zero, because the corporation has rendered it illegal (via lobbying the local political flunkies desperate for “jobs” and campaign contributions) to even take photos of their vast animal-waste output or their inadequate disposal.<\/p>\n Where do oppressed serfs go to advocate for transparency in America’s private Gulag prison system?<\/strong> If you go to the prison to protest, you’ll be arrested and will soon be looking at the world from inside the privately operated gulag.<\/p>\n Once again–where is the castle on the hill?<\/strong> It’s not there. The corporate operators of the private Gulag are far away, and security will disperse any troublesome serfs who travel hundreds of miles to air grievances.<\/p>\n Documenting abuses in the privately owned and operated Gulag is illegal.<\/strong> Corporate lobbying and campaign contributions have ensured that any attempt to document neofeudal exploitation by corporations is illegal.<\/p>\n And of course if documentation is impossible to obtain, then the exploitation doesn’t exist.<\/strong> The mainstream media’s default setting is to dismiss first-hand accounts as “he said, she said”: the imprisoned serf says this, and the private prison spokesperson says that, and without any proof that can stand up in court, the grievance vanishes into thin air.<\/p>\n Try telling the African peasant who is unhappy with the Chinese owners of the land he tills to take his grievances to the owners of the land<\/strong>–a corporation in distant China that is owned by the Chinese army.<\/p>\n The reality is there is no avenue left for advocacy, grievances or redress in a system dominated by global corporations.<\/strong> The castle on the hill doesn’t exist; it is diffused all over the planet, and well protected by state minions controlled by neofeudal corporate interests.<\/p>\n Do you really think it’s mere coincidence that small business growth has imploded in the era of corporate dominance?<\/strong> As I explained yesterday in Governments Change, the Corporatocracy Endures<\/a>, central banks dropping interest rates to near-zero for financiers and corporations sealed corporate dominance of finance and governance. There are few opportunities for small businesses when the financial and political structures serve neofeudal corporate interests.<\/p>\n
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