‘The Corporate Overlords will be Kind’ advances that corporations are now – and will increasingly be – the loudest voices in the political market square of the United States, but that such a situation is not necessarily a cause for concern. This book thus departs from the traditional scholarly views of Citizens United (the 2010 landmark decision of the Supreme Court which granted free speech to corporations as persons) as a woe to democracy, and argues that the ageless, deathless, genderless, nationless corporations will be the political representatives of the futures, not political parties.
This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students specializing in social sciences, particularly politics, history, sociology, and law. Political professionals and journalists may also be interested in the book, in addition to the general reader with interest in politics.
A doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Bucharest, Romania, Radu George Dumitrescu is also the former editor in chief of The New Federalist, a Pan-European magazine that tackles topics relating to the European Union. In 2019, Radu was among the youngest nominees ever to make the European Press Prize list for his article ‘Use Article 7 against my country’.