Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11

On 2026-08-17, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:58:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> I find it ironic that these huge, right-wing companies are working
>> to achieve Karl Marx's fondest dream: the elimination of private
>> property. (We could quibble about these companies being private
>> themselves, or just acknowledge that they're more part of the
>> government than private citizens.)
>
> Karl Marx would be spinning in his grave if he knew you were claiming
> that the corporations whose power he was against were in any way the
> fulfilment of his ideas.

That's the lovely thing about irony.  :-)

> The term for private corporations having more power over ordinary
> citizens’ lives than the Government, is not “Communism”, but
> “Fascism”. Or possibly “Corporatism”.

I did a bit of digging and found out that the term "corporatism"
has already been taken.  "Corporatocracy" seems to be preferable.

> I think it’s “Fascism” if the Government themselves are in league
> with the corporates.

If you don't want to use the term "fascism" (even Heinlein mentioned
the term "corporate fascism" in one of his novels), the term
"regulatory capture" seems to be becoming a popular euphemism.

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