Wisdom for dessert......Profound quotes on corporatism....(business=BAD)

[Chris_]

So. businesses, who pay people's wages, are inherently bad.  Government is so much better?

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"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- Thomas Jefferson

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"Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy."
- Woodrow Wilson

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"The real fight today is against inhuman, relentless exercise of capitalistic power... The present struggle in which we are engaged is for social and industrial justice."
- US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

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"Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth."
- Henry Ford

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"If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state."
-Philip D. Reed

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"Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery."
-Franz Fanon

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“Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and the relationship between the people and the corporation has reversed.”
- Ben Manski

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"Today's business corporation is an artificial creation, shielding owners and managers while preserving corporate privilege and existence. Artificial or not, corporations have won more rights under the law than people have -- rights which government has protected with armed force."
- Richard Grossman and Frank Adams

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"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past."
- Noam Chomsky

Small bonfire -- wait for it, though.

[jukin]

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

From the great man that saved democracy in the twencen, Sir Winston Churchill

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