>:
>
> As state capitalism developed into the modern era, economic,
> political and ideological systems have increasingly been taken over
> by vast institutions of private tyranny that are about as close to
> the totalitarian ideal as any that humans have so far constructed.
> 'Within the corporation,' political economist Robert Brady wrote
> half a centry ago, 'all policies emanate from the control above. In
> the union of this power to determine policy with the execution
> thereof, all authority necessarily proceeds from the top to the
> bottom and all responsibility from the bottom to the top. This is,
> of course, the inverse of "democratic" control; it follows the
> structural conditions of dictatorial power.'
>
--CGE
On Sep 21, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Sep 21, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:01 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
>> > wrote:
>>> Chomsky means that corporations are undemocratic "private
>>> tyrannies" that
>>> must be restrained by the residual democratic elements of the state.
>>
>> Hilarious.
>
> Who's going to do it? A spokescouncil?
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