I don't know much about Tesco, but I think things have been written about the buying policies of some South African Superparket chains that are similar -- Pick 'n Pay, Shoprite/Checkers and the like, especially the arm-twisting they do with suppliers. And we don't even have Co-ops. There were brief hopes that we might see things like that in 1984, but the ANC government abandoned its Reconstruction and Development Programme and swapped it for a neoliberal model within a year.

And there was nary a squeak from the Christian churches about any of this.

Why?

Well, you've put your finger on that in your post.
Steve Hayes | Homepage | 17.04.08 - 4:43 am | #

i was glad to come across these words today.
last of the presbyterians | Homepage | 17.04.08 - 9:20 am | #

Pretty on the money, Sam!

But it isn't quite an either/or! Making personal lifestyle choices and changes are part of the witness to that other Kingdom/Rule. And prophetic denouncement of key idols is a necessary component of the telling of truth....

...so, don't back too far off Tesco! Keep at it, at the guerilla level!


Also, remember, I guess, that we never do this as individuals, in the Christian understanding. Hauerwas is always reminding me that we accept collusion with all kinds of earthly and fleshly systems of the domination order, rather than pull our fingers out as the Church and form our own Base Ecclesial Communities to do things differently!
Paul | Homepage | 17.04.08 - 3:42 pm | #