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RobertEarl

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17. No leaders...exactly

Reply to Taverner (Reply #9)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 09:15 PM

Mar 2012

Corporations want to be their own leaders and do as they please.

Sure, there are leaders in the corps. And if you look at the conspiring corps -- which strive to eliminate rules over the lot of them -- as 'workers', 'oppressed' by the government, the similarities are keen.

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Real Anarchists [View all] RobertEarl Mar 2012 OP

corporations are not anarchist institutions. that is just silly. Warren Stupidity Mar 2012 #1

Oh? Silly? No. Just not understood, obviuosly. RobertEarl Mar 2012 #2

No I said corps are not anarchist orgs. Warren Stupidity Mar 2012 #3

they are anarchist RobertEarl Mar 2012 #4

This plays into the Tea Party mantra... brooklynite Mar 2012 #5

that's a good first step RobertEarl Mar 2012 #6

yeah what would I know. Warren Stupidity Mar 2012 #8

Indeed, corps are extreme statist institutions. JackRiddler Mar 2012 #14

Corporations, per se, are not anarchists - the people who run them, are... JFN1 Mar 2012 #7

Tsk tsk tsk there is a difference between anarchy and anarchism Taverner Mar 2012 #9

No leaders...exactly RobertEarl Mar 2012 #17

Corporations are anarchists? Really?! white_wolf Mar 2012 #10

Actually, large groups of people cannot successfully exist without Skidmore Mar 2012 #12

"Libertarianism is Anarchism for the rich" ErikJ Mar 2012 #11

Not quite. Corporations want government control... backscatter712 Mar 2012 #13

Totalitarians is correct RobertEarl Mar 2012 #15

Corporations are not anarchists. baldguy Mar 2012 #16

How about this description: 'Anarchistic' RobertEarl Mar 2012 #18

Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, why not use the actual definitions of the word? baldguy Mar 2012 #20

Thanks. A nice confirmation RobertEarl Mar 2012 #21

Whut? lonestarnot Mar 2012 #19