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Corps don't need a military in their own name if they can influence existing militaries to do what they want. Chiquita did this repeatedly, for instance - they
by geofft 6y ago
Corps don't need a military in their own name if they can influence existing militaries to do what they want. Chiquita did this repeatedly, for instance - they got the Colombian military to fire on striking workers in 1928, they got the US military to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954, they funded a paramilitary terrorist organization in Colombia from 1997 to 2004, etc.
- thereare5lights 6y agoRight but the issue is corps becoming more powerful than government. Needing to act through the government would seem to indicate that corps are not more powerful.
- MikeUt 6y agoDo they "need to act through government", or do they "control government to act for them"?
- geofft 6y agoBeing able to make other people do work for you is sort of the standard expression of power. My management doesn't have root, and I do, but they're more powerful than me simply because they can tell me what to do with my root access. The owners of the company probably don't even know who I am, but they are more powerful still because they can tell my management what to do.