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Laura Ingraham's advertisers aren't really staging a boycott. It's a capital strike

Bruenig, Elizabeth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laura-ingrahams-advertisers-arent-really-staging-a-boycott-its-a-capital-strike/2018/04/04/aba91dd2-382a-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html

Publisher:  Washington Post
Date Written:  04/04/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

There are no regulations or laws preventing or even restricting capital strikes in the form of corporate activism, therefore social and political aspirations of capital always have an effective instrument on hand; yet the same cannot be said for labour.

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The swiftness with which Ingraham has found herself in dire straits has left some perturbed. Commentators have raised concerns about the fairness of boycotts and the threat they pose to free speech; some conservatives have also attempted to initiate counter-boycotts of the companies that have parted ways with Ingraham.

Yet it's not quite right to classify these advertisers' decisions as a straightforward boycott. In the context of Ingraham's long career in right-wing media, sniping at a teenager over college admissions is perhaps one of her less obscene stunts, which suggests it’s unlikely that these companies suddenly grew a collective conscience and decided to bring their expenditures into accord with their morals. It's more likely that Ingraham is the victim of a capital strike, when investors withdraw or withhold investments en masse because they've determined that potential hazards outweigh potential gains.

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