i think you both had good points. i'm not striving for perfection.
good examples:
>A little googling turned up this further elaboration of his point:
>
> Q: You view corporations as being incompatible with democracy, and
> you say that if we apply the concepts that are used in political
> analysis, corporations are fascist. That's a highly charged term.
> What do you mean?
>
> A: I mean fascism pretty much in the traditional sense. So when a
> rather mainstream person like Robert Skidelsky, the biographer of
> [olshevism and fascism. We have three
> forms of twentieth century totalitarianism: bolshevism, fascism and
> corporation. Two of them, fortunately, were dissolved, disappeared
> mostly. The third remains. It shouldn't. Power should be in the
> hand of populations.
> (From http://www.zmag.org/hoodbhoychom.htm)
>
> > i expect chomsky, like many of us on this list, is looking for a way to
> > characterize all the "fascist like" behavior and thinking, the social
> > darwinism, etc., that exemplifies contemporary US society.
> >
> > i'm waiting for carrol to come up with the bon mot.
>
>Don't hold your breath.
>
>Best,
>
>Kendall
hear that carrol? given a little time, i think you can do it. :-)
R