----- Original Message ----- From: "Kendall Clark" <kendall at monkeyfist.com>
> > 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.
>
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Corps. have their origins in military hierarchies and in many cases the charters were given to ex-military officers in the 17th and 18th centuries. See Geoffrey Hodgson's "Economics and Evolution" and Maxine Berg's "The Age of Manufactures" for some refs. My former employer was started by a Viet Nam flyboy [napalm Freddie as my co-workers called him] who got his 'seed' capital as a reward from his folks for busting Greyhound's Union. Went to Yale as I recall..........
Ian