globalization & Pynchon?

[Jane Sweet]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Those interests are display.  Still, Pynchon takes care to talk in some
> detail about the corporation and its role in the colonial exploitation that
> the eponymous M&D serve - he shows how corporations take on a life separate
> from the individuals who serve them and the kings and governments that
> charter them.  This builds on his indictment (not too strong a word, in my
> opinion) in GR of the corporation and the cartels they form, their
> responsibility for War, the rape of the Earth, the perversion of basic human
> impulses (cf Their colonialization and exploitation of Slothrop's
> unconscious impulses - there's that "im"), and in exacerbating human misery
> across the board.

Does P condemn corporations? All and any corporations? Is he
against GE? IBM? Viking Press? Penguin books? Henry Holt?
How about his own corporation or his wife's corporation? Is
he a Marxist? Is this what people think? 

The idea that corporations have a life of their own is
troublesome. Do they? If 
I G Farben and Standard Oil took on a life of their own, in
other words, if  the Concern was acting independently of the
men and women that worked for them, built them, organized
them, ran them until they took on lives of their own, can
the responsibility for Dora be laid at the feet of the Nazi
bureaucrat? Isn't one of the messages of GR and M&D and V.
and VL, that the paranoid belief that the Rocket or Firm 
has a life of its own is not much better than the
Cartel/Firm's arrogant belief that it  can conquer the Earth
and break free of Gravity?   

This is why I think the idea that corporations now have
rights and liberties not given to people or citizens is also
a troubling way of looking at the issue. 

Of course, this is also why I don't think humans are
anything at all like machines or computers. Just read Weiner
too. 

 and the cartels they form, their
> responsibility for War, the rape of the Earth, the perversion of basic human
> impulses (cf Their colonialization and exploitation of Slothrop's
> unconscious impulses - there's that "im"), and in exacerbating human misery
> across the board.

This I agree with, but the blanket condemnation of
corporations or capitalism is yet be explained.