[lbo-talk] Libertarian "smackdwn" on Chomsky's "private tyranny" idea re: corporations

[Sheldon Baker]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/oneill1.html
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> On 'Private Tyrannies'
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> by Ben O'Neill
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institution as the Bolshevik state of Vladimir Lenin? Even to ask
these questions is to see their patent absurdity. For, while a
dictatorship is certainly structured as a hierarchy, this is most
clearly not a sufficient condition. Rather, the most basic and
essential condition for dictatorial power, which stands out
unmistakably in truly totalitarian regimes, is the ability of the
dictator to initiate physical force to compel others to do as they are
told.
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Yeah, but why bother with a military when a simple "You're fired"
ususally works?  Of course any worker who persists on coming into work
finds that force can be arranged.