The Crimes of Empire?

Kendall Clark kendall at monkeyfist.com
Fri Sep 6 11:53:34 PDT 2002


On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:38:31PM -0400, Chris Doss wrote:


>
> >[just because you post it, doesn't mean you totally agree. Chomsky
> >by the way has said corporations are fascist and is of the view
> >America was fascist during World War II.]
> >http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_septoct_2002/chomsky.html
>
> Chomsky has never said anything of the sort.

Perhaps not, but he's said things which are close to that.

For example,

Corporations come from the same intellectual roots as the other

forms of modern totalitarianism, namely, Stalinism and fascism.

Corporations have no more legitimacy than any other kind of

totalitarian regime.

That's not equivalent to saying they are fascist, but it's not entirely unrelated either. (It being a pretty understandable misreading of *Chomksy* has, of course, little to do with how accurate it is per se.)

Best, Kendall Clark



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