Tag: corporate state
There’s a popular historical legend that goes like this: Once upon a time, back in the 19th century, the United States economy was almost completely unregulated and laissez-faire.
No caso da economia corporativa, porém, quase não faz sentido.
Kevin Carson: Se eu achasse que “livres mercados” e “livre comércio” realmente significassem o que locutores neoliberais dizem significar essas expressões, eu também odiaria essas coisas.
Dawie Coetzee: How Innovation is Used to Advance the Interests of the State-Industrial Machine.
This calculation argument can be applied not only to a state-planned economy, but also to the internal planning of the large corporation.
They are little understood in the United States, or perhaps better still misunderstood.
Corporate capitalism is organized around the imperatives, not of maximizing efficiency, but of maximizing the extraction of rents. When maximum extraction of rents requires artificial imposition of inefficiency, the capitalists’ state is ready and willing.
Kevin Carson: As I’ve said many times, if the “free market” meant what the capitalist apologists mean by it, I’d hate it myself.
A missão principal de Exército, Marinha, Força Aérea e Marines é manter o mundo a salvo para as corporações transnacionais.
There exists in the country now – and there has existed for some time – an appreciable readiness to, if you will, suspend disbelief when it comes to the claims of politicians.
Carson lê a escritura na parede da Propriedade Intelectual – IP.
Seth Goldin: When is a contract not enforceable? When shouldn’t a contract be enforced?
Abby Martin: Blockaders need the love and support of anarchists and libertarians alike, they face horrible amounts of injustice at the hands of the state for simply doing what’s right.
Carson: Whatever corporate copyright lockdown Disney puts the franchise under couldn’t possibly exceed George Lucas’s worst. The Disney acquisition actually offers to breathe new life into the Star Wars universe.
Carson: Stratfor está do lado do mal e as alegadas ações de Hammond contra ela foram inteiramente justificadas. Condeno a detenção e o processo contra ele.
The government has a bit too much invested in the financial sector for, well, the financial sector’s own good.
Carson: Proteção às grandes empresas para que não sejam responsabilizadas de verdade
Yep, those risk-averse New Classers definitely know something the rest of us do not.
Carson: It’s just a greenwashed version of mid-20th century, mass-production capitalism.
A market that is free in any intelligibly rational sense of the word is the one thing the corporations will not be able to survive.
