It’s not just that the corporations have taken control over our government (though that’s awful enough). It’s also that they’ve taken control over — and put serious limits on — our choices regarding what we buy, where we work, how we live, and what rights we have. Our futures are increasingly no longer our own: more and more decisions, large and small, that determine the quality of our lives are being made by Politburo apparatchiks at a Supreme Corporate Soviet somewhere far distant from us. Only now, those apparatchiks are PR and marketing executives, titans of corporate finance, lobbyists for multinationals, and bean-counting managers trying to increase profits at the expense of our freedom.More, "with tongue only somewhat in cheek," from Salon/Alternet.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Corporatism Is Communism
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Corporatism is a problem.
ReplyDeleteThey would quite happily kill us all if they thought there was a profit in it (it is probably a very good thing that killing too many of us would ruin their profits).
Soviet Editor:
ReplyDeleteDon't think that will stop them for much longer, as their voo-doo economics become less & less tethered to reality.