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> US companies are extensions of the US elites (while the state is just a tool) Incorrect. In the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites, and everyone
by ethbr0 5y ago
> US companies are extensions of the US elites (while the state is just a tool)
Incorrect. In the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites, and everyone else all have competing and overlapping interests, and out of that democracy comes the sausage.
In China, the system is specifically rigged so that the state always trumps everyone else, when it decides it needs to.
- markus_zhang 5y agoIn China you also have elites and governments competing with each other.
- smhost 5y ago> Democracy is when the competing groups are "the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites" Americanist ideology is really something else.
- ethbr0 5y agoIf you're going to quote, you could at least do so accurately.