We have to face the reality that corporate power is not going away. The struggle of the 21st Century is going to be the struggle for democratisation of non-state power, democratisation of the power of the private sector.
Consumers have a right to demand representation when companies exert political influence. Corporate power can not remain immune to public accountability.
Corporations have worked tirelessly to increase and consolidate their power, through the courts, through lobbying, through legislation, through international agreements, through the elimination of competitors; and today they have the power to make or break economies and to coerce governments.
They have achieved an unprecedented level of global sovereignty, and there are no democratic mechanisms to restrict them or dismiss them.
We are entering an era that will write a new chapter in the history of democracy; the democratisation of institutions of private power.