David M. Brennan.Enron: Understanding Deregulated Markets, Accounting Scandals, and Lost Savings. RM 15(4):554-564 "A Marxian analysis of the Enron scandal moves beyond the focus on individuals to raise larger concerns. Although Enron's collapse and subsequent problems at Adelphia, Imclone, and WorldCom should have generated debates about free markets, corporate accountability, and worker welfare; the focus remained on specific individuals who were accused of corrupt practices. A class analysis of Enron's corporate structure, its various forms of participation in the energy market, and its sources of revenues, reveals a complex combination of the appropriation and distribution of surplus-value. It is contended that class processes within Enron's ""collage of activities"" had an impact on foreign and domestic populations as well as on the undermining of democracy; environmental degradation, market deregulation/manipulation, weak/fraudulent accounting procedures, and willingness to risk worker savings. Emphasis is placed on the importance of analyzing class dimensions underlying the movement to deregulate markets, the new generation of transportation firms, the economy of trading, and stated corporate profits. The indictment of individuals must not be allowed to obscure larger problems stemming from capitalist class processes/relations. 13 References. J. Lindroth."