The New Corporate Totalitarianism

Free-market capitalism was supposed to save us from faceless apparatchiks. But corporations have made America like the old Soviet Union

An old bit of wisdom says: choose your enemies carefully, because over time, you will tend to become the very thing you most strongly resist. One of the most striking things about our victorious corporations now is the degree to which they’ve taken on some of the most noxious and Kafkaesque attributes of the Soviet system — too often leaving their employees, customers, and other stakeholders just as powerless over their own fates as the unhappy ... Full Story »

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Increasingly, the corporatization of our consumer landscape has meant that there’s less choice and variety in our marketplaces than there used to be. Centrally planned ... More »

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by Tanya J. Maurer - Aug. 7, 2012

The USSR has been a historical dead letter for over 20 years now — but there are still plenty of earnest Fox-watching Americans for whom ... More »

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