Carrol
"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
>
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> I fail to see any connection between the
> "intellectual roots" of corporations, what
> I believe Adam Smith called joint stock
> companies, and Stalinism or fascism.
> It's hard to find any intellectual roots
> of Stalinism at all.
>
> Legitimacy is a separate matter. Corporations
> are creatures of law, so if law is legitimate
> so are corporations. The fact that corps
> and totalitarianism are both hierarchical
> is pretty thin gruel.
"Hierarchical" is becoming almost as dull a bit of jargon as anything that ever appeared in a Sparticist leaflet or a Coolidge speech.
Carrol