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In reply to the discussion: The New Totalitarianism: How American Corporations Have Made America Like the Soviet Union [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)3. Is Truth.
Corporate rule is exactly same like dicktatership.
All zeks serve Mission.
No peon get vote that counts.
Big Boss rules.
Little Bosses terrorize.
Serfs serve.
Big Time.
Sounds familiar, America?
No? Read words of man who once headed Supreme Corporate Presidium of the BFEE:
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -- George W Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
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The New Totalitarianism: How American Corporations Have Made America Like the Soviet Union [View all]
xchrom
Jul 2012
OP
That could have been a good joke, but you lost me at "purely democratic constructs"
Occulus
Jul 2012
#10
I get your point, but nevertheless corporations are the sum of people's choices
bhikkhu
Jul 2012
#25
A couple of my geography professors actually took a tour of the USSR with Intourist
Art_from_Ark
Jul 2012
#19
perestroika (abandonment of central planning) was already implemented by 1985
BOG PERSON
Jul 2012
#22
Central planning was very efficient, it was just focused on the wrong things.
white_wolf
Jul 2012
#39
There's no fundamental difference between state communism and unfettered capitalism.
joshcryer
Jul 2012
#21