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Corporate Communism
FEELING GOOD DOING EVIL—Reclaiming Free Speech and Common Sense
The slogans sound generous. The outcomes are not.
Corporate Communism: Feeling Good Doing Evil makes that gap visible. Jaks names a system that has grown since the 1980s: concentrated capital and government working in concert, selling control as compassion. ESG scores, DEI mandates, speech rules, climate deadlines, and public-private “partnerships” are treated not as isolated controversies but as one machinery. It rewards those who nod along and punishes those who ask who actually benefits.
The author’s mother fled Soviet Estonia. That one fact is why Jaks treats “kindness” as something that can be used against a free people, not as proof that a particular policy is good. The choice is not capitalism versus communism. It is brute capitalism versus regulated capitalism—the kind that once built a broad middle class while offering good, solid jobs to the working class.
- The first step is to see Corporate Communism for what it is.
- The next step is to stop fuelling it with our goodwill and compliance.
- The third is to choose regulated capitalism, not communism and not today's suffocating hybrid
The book’s job is practical: see the pattern, stop fueling it with goodwill, and reclaim the messy conversations democracy requires. Written as a conversation rather than a manifesto (with extensive footnotes), it is meant to be used at the dinner table and at the ballot box.
And don't get too tangled up in culture wars. Tame corporate capitalism and the culture wars lose their power.
If a policy makes you feel virtuous before you look at the bill, this book shows you the price.
NOT YOUR DONKEY
Maret Jaks runs a Substack and Podcast called NOT YOUR DONKEY where she focuses not just on politics and culture but on a wide range of topics we all face in this thing called Life. Free to subscribe.
The story of
Maret Jaks
Fierce grandmother | Tech consultant & writer | Business owner | Free speech advocate.
Maret Jaks is a fearless independent author, speaker, and cultural critic whose work stands out for its intellectual honesty and refusal to self-censor in an era of enforced conformity. With an Estonian refugee mother who escaped Soviet communism, Maret grew up with an instinctive understanding of how quickly freedom can be lost to ideology and centralized power. This heritage deeply informs her writing, giving her a unique perspective on contemporary threats to Western liberty, cohesion, and truth.
But she’s not all about politics. She built her tech business while jointly raising her family with her ex-husband (also in tech). A firm believer in working directly with people who need help, she once fostered four teenage girls, served as an advocate for women in prison, and volunteered with elderly residents in care homes. These chapters of her life, along with her deep love of nature and the environment (without being a climate catastrophist) reinforce her conviction that each of us should live like it matters, because it does.
Oh, and she’s a dog-lover, too.
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