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Fantastic Anarchist

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7. Yep ...

Reply to bvar22 (Reply #3)

Mon Nov 4, 2013, 02:08 PM

Nov 2013

... and one thing, never confuse an actual free and fair market with capitalism. The two are mutually exclusive and can never happen if there are laborers and capitalists who extract their surplus value.

I'm not favoring one tendency over another, but Mutualism (free-market socialism) is compatible with a free-market due to its reliance, on a large scale, of labor collectively controlling the means of production through cooperatives and free associations of labor - think Mondragon.

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10 Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Buy, 6 Media Corporations Control Nearly Everything... [View all] Fantastic Anarchist Nov 2013 OP

As for the trend in media ownership, this was predicted in the mid-eighties by Ben Bagdikian LanternWaste Nov 2013 #1

Thank you for the additional information ... Fantastic Anarchist Nov 2013 #2

Diversity in media ownership had been shrinking in the 80s Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #4

If I correctly recall him from radio interviews back then... JHB Nov 2013 #9

The media giants have to maintain the "buying mood" for the advertisers. bemildred Nov 2013 #18

.....And then there was ONE. bvar22 Nov 2013 #3

Yep ... Fantastic Anarchist Nov 2013 #7

but goliath had his david ... hopefully there is a david out there MichaelSoE Nov 2013 #17

If the rules of Monopoly allowed for the killing of The ONE.... bvar22 Nov 2013 #20

But the real question is who sits on the boards of those companies. OffWithTheirHeads Nov 2013 #5

Board of Directors list (GE - NEWS-CORP - DISNEY - VIACOM - TIME WARNER - CBS) The Wielding Truth Nov 2013 #12

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Nov 2013 #6

Thank you, Uncle Joe for the K&R! Fantastic Anarchist Nov 2013 #8

Same thing with the banks... KansDem Nov 2013 #10

I'd forgotten about so many of those names... Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #22

and that have never have been alllowed to happen gopiscrap Nov 2013 #11

If we could build enough momentum with protests, voting etc., to get Publicly Funded Elections Dustlawyer Nov 2013 #13

Excellent post malaise Nov 2013 #14

Bookmarking. City Lights Nov 2013 #15

K&R woo me with science Nov 2013 #16

And they can all be broken up by the government. bemildred Nov 2013 #19

Teddy Roosevelt!....Teddy Roosevelt!..... bvar22 Nov 2013 #21