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Quite true - the problem we have is not capitalism; it's corporatism: the alliance of corporate oligarchs and the state.
by nickpinkston 16y ago
Quite true - the problem we have is not capitalism; it's corporatism: the alliance of corporate oligarchs and the state.
- stretchwithme 16y agoexactly. government slanted in favor of anybody is trouble for everybody else.
- naradaellis 16y agoJohn Ralston Saul's book Unconscious Civilization (a kind of primer on his theories I think, which one would read before they tackle Voltaire's Bastards) does a wonderful job of elaborating this point, anyone interested in an article such as this would do well to read the book, Capitalism - real capitalism, not the cowardice we see masquarading as capitalism a lot of the time - is fine, corporatism and the power we give corps. by surrendring to them is what is dismantling democracy and individual liberty. (And Ralston Saul posits that this is an age-old battle, whether it be corps. in their modern form, or as in the Catholic Church).