Quote:It's not capitalism on a global scale, when corporations have the power to use government force you no longer are functioning under capitalism, that's closer to fascism.

 

Hard to argue with that...  But I think we're picking at nits at that point.  We haven't seen fascism without some sort of nationalism placed on top of it in order to dupe the population of workers.

 

So I think you may have a point.

 

One thing to consider though is that this new form of corporate consolidation and it's overtake of nations is that there is no sense of nationalism involved.  The only thing that matters is profits.  There is not even an attempt to say this is for the greater good, or that it makes societies better.    This, I think, is a entirely new thing we're seeing.  

 

I think, that since these same multi-nationals, in essence control the media and therefore the message, they don't have to worry about any sort of grandiose lie.  Of course, they always have the arguement that they are the job creators, that the money will trickle down, and other corporate talking points to threaten us with...  But you know I don't buy that.

 

I can't think of any other reason why they really are so arrogantly going about making this thing happen under no guise of democracy. 

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