Transparency International’s report Money, Power and Politics (2012) showed that in most European countries, the influence of lobbyists is shrouded in secrecy and a major cause for concern.
Not sure about what you mean by “just the possibility for lobbying doesn’t make any country automatically corrupted” ?
As Graeber puts it, it’s the peculiarity of the manager class’ centrism to consider that renaming bribery “lobbying” and making it legal solves the problem of corruption.
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those are based on the POV of institutions like the World Bank…
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I think pointing out the fact that lobbying is legal and common should be enough
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like hwat
@varjolintu
Not sure about what you mean by “just the possibility for lobbying doesn’t make any country automatically corrupted” ?
As Graeber puts it, it’s the peculiarity of the manager class’ centrism to consider that renaming bribery “lobbying” and making it legal solves the problem of corruption.