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What is private about Microsoft or Toyota or Google?
^^^^ CB: The news reports some private appropriation in these companies, no ?
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Indeed, after Morris Cohen and some of the Legal Realists' redescriptions of
property, let alone the actual juridical changes in the structuring of corporations, what is private about capitalism?
^^^^^ CB: There is a lot of private appropriation, as Marx terms it.
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When terms like State and collective are as polysemous and vague as they are
despite the articulations of legal theorists, economists, sociologists, philosophers etc. over the last 20 decades, why should any one engage in obeisance to the utterly unstable and subsequently destabilized binary of public/private as it existed when Marx wrote up his various hypotheses?
^^^^ CB: The actual activities of people correspond to the binary. All the writing you mention to the contrary may not correspond to the social reality.
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Recommended:
All Organizations Are Public: Comparing Public And Private Organizations by Barry Bozeman
^^^^^^^ CB: There is a class of people who are appropriating qualitatively more than the other class.