No offense, but the phrase "neo-communist corporate uprising" has got to be one of the funniest bits of nonsense I've ever read. At risk of being a little lecturing, communism is the economic opposite of capitalism--and in practice it's downright hostile to corporations. What you are thinking of is fascism. Cuba is a canonical example of this. Batista was a fascist dictator; Castro is a communist dictator. The first people who fled the Revolution were merchants, because capitalism can't (openly) exist in a communist state. Capitalism does, however, flourish in a state with fascist leanings--at least as well as it does in a democracy.
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I know it's American to think all evil in the world comes from Godless Communists. But the scenario you're describing ain't communist, kiddo. It's the precise opposite. You do an admirable job of presenting the reductio ad absurdum argument against a completely unregulated free market, though.
No offense, but the phrase "neo-communist corporate uprising" has got to be one of the funniest bits of nonsense I've ever read. At risk of being a little lecturing, communism is the economic opposite of capitalism--and in practice it's downright hostile to corporations. What you are thinking of is fascism. Cuba is a canonical example of this. Batista was a fascist dictator; Castro is a communist dictator. The first people who fled the Revolution were merchants, because capitalism can't (openly) exist in a communist state. Capitalism does, however, flourish in a state with fascist leanings--at least as well as it does in a democracy.
I know it's American to think all evil in the world comes from Godless Communists. But the scenario you're describing ain't communist, kiddo. It's the precise opposite. You do an admirable job of presenting the reductio ad absurdum argument against a completely unregulated free market, though.
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