We need to move beyond thinking that corporate “social responsibility” only includes the policies and practices WITHIN a company that affect workers; and beyond thinking that it only includes things like environmental impact. Every major multinational corporation, every industry sector, employs political lobbyists and lawyers, they create Political Action Committees (PACs), finance political campaigns, essentially bribe legislators, and they pit one economy against another, one workforce against another; they determine wages, costs, availability of jobs, influence housing and land prices, and the list goes on.
They are political entities, they dominate state policy, and they pursue agendas that, more often than not, either disregard the interests of the population, or else radically conflict with the public interest.
There is no reason why this has to be the case. Whatever money and power and influence they have, we have given them, and continue to give them. We have to understand that whenever we buy from this or that company, we are making a contribution to their political agenda. We have the right, therefore, to shape that agenda.