Which institution is the genesis of political thought?

[Writer]

That is, which institution sets the political agenda to which most other institutions cater?

[newmajority]

1. Right now, it's the corporations.

But it should be the people.

[undeterred]

3. The corporate religion was shaped by the University of Chicago

department of Economics. Milton Friedman was the high priest. This is the religion they've been teaching in American MBA programs for the last 40 years at least.

[LeftishBrit]

2. All of these, but I put the media, as I think they influence so many of the others...

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. The People produce everything

Or rather, the multitude produces everything. "The People" is already a bad concept, a State concept, a wounded multitude turned back on itself and subsumed beneath the State. The Multitude produces everything.

Everything.

How it gets segmented, restructured, siphoned off, exploited, transformed, turned back against itself or intensified, that's a much more complicated story. There is no "single" or unified entity that stands as the genesis of political thought other than the multitude, the common.

[NYC_SKP]

7. Bingo!

While businesses and corporations are the prime visible movers, we empower them through our support.

We still have the power, provided we have the power to buy one newspaper over the other, use one bank over another, etc.

Unfortunately, centralized ownership leaves us fewer choices every day.

[Lilith Velkor]

5. Nursery school

Depending on your definition of political thought.

[MasonJar]

6. Corporations are the genesis, but the media facilitates the politics

and spreads the corporation agenda under the guise of truthiness.

[Undercurrent]

8. The pig corporations.

Big media is part of the overarching corporate structure, and does the pig corp's bidding. The corporate media peddles the propaganda, whips up war fever, and pits one "group" against another -- what ever is required to further the pig corp's agenda.

[Cal Carpenter]

9. Media IS business

As is Hollywood, many churches, hell, even a lot of the research/educational category fits into business - 'foundations' and 'institutes' are often corporately funded, textbooks are profitable too..

I picked business with that in mind.

[Motown_Johnny]

10. I voted other, just to suggest that some higher learning institutions may inspire political thought

[harun]

11. When corporations/rich ask congress to jump they ask "how high and when master"(n/t)