"Six principles... uphold the needs of property owners above all other needs.
1. Worldview: In the worldview of corporate financial statements, the aim is to pay stockholders as much as possible, and employees as little as possible.
2. Privilege: Stockholders claim wealth they do little to create, much as nobles claimed privilege they did not earn.
3. Property: Like a feudal estate, a corporation is considered a piece of property — not a human community — so it can be owned and sold by the propertied class.
4. Governance: Corporations function with an aristocratic governance structure, where members of the propertied class alone may vote.
5. Liberty: Corporate capitalism embraces a predemocratic concept of liberty reserved for property holders, which thrives by restricting the liberty of employees and the community.
6. Sovereignty: Corporations assert that they are private and the free market will self-regulate, much as feudal barons asserted a sovereignty independent of the Crown."
- Marjorie Kelly, from The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, 2001.
















