Happy 50th Birthday to the Memo That Reframed Corporations as Victims in American Life

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : He was a deciding vote in the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke [1978] case to maintain affirmative action, even as he gutted the law's ability to deal with structural racism.
52% : He particularly pointed to the media, politics, the courts, and higher education as sites of what he alleged was hostility to the "free enterprise system," which is capitalism as he wanted it to be.
52% : That came in response to a brief period in U.S. history where Americans were having increasing influence on our public policy: the post-robber-baron era, with the rise of the New Deal
52% : I think it was riding a wave of corporate reaction to all the legislative advances that popular movements made from the New Deal forward.
50% : MacLean: I think part of the reason there wasn't more protest against Powell as this started to come out is that, until quite recently, most progressive activists have seen the Supreme Court as a defender of abortion rights, civil rights, and affirmative action, but they haven't thought as much about corporate power.
49% : MacLean: It's also a way of talking that goes way back in American history, to the American Liberty League's response to the New Deal in the name of property rights, to the development of free enterprise as a framework in reaction to the New Deal.
45% : Then he used his post on the Supreme Court to engraft onto our Constitution, onto the First Amendment, corporate rights that did not previously exist.
45% : It seems to me that America was not as anti-corporate as Powell made it out to be, even during the New Deal.
40% : I saw that with the New Left critique of public education, which really played into the right's push for privatization of public education.

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