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Steady, statists...

In Reply to: The state is, and always will be, an organization for controlling the people. posted by DonS on July 22, 1999 at 11:43:21:

: Don: The state is, and always will be, an organization for controlling the people. This will be true regardless of the methods of governing used. This is obvious in the case of monarchys and dictators. It is also true in total democracy.

So which is fairer? An elected state where everyone has a chance of making themselves heard and the representatives are elected from the people, or an unelected state consisting of corporate heads answerable only to their shareholders.

Why is a free-market state controlled by crime/corporate lords preferable to a democratic one? - the tender mercies of transnational corporations are a matter of public record...

It beats me that people think you can do away with an elected state and yet leave the global corporate world untouched; and that large corporations will somehow start behaving ethically in the absence of regulation. I'm not greatly fond of the state; but I'm far less fond of the corporate state...

Gideon.

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