It's not "the private sector" - Democratic Underground

SHRED

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Sun Jun-17-07 11:37 AM
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It's not "the private sector"

It's "the corporate sector".

I heard Ralph Nader say this on C-SPAN interview with Amy Goodman.

He called for changing the wording.
Sounds good to me.

When they speak of "privatization" I will, from now on, refer to it as "corporatization".

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HereSince1628

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Sun Jun-17-07 11:44 AM
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1. But...remember it's about corporations offering no public stock.

Consequently they are beyond the reach of "the investor class" so vaunted by the DLC and the Bushites.

Corporate interests won't have even a thinnist veil to hide behind when they ask Americans to fight wars for America's "strategic" interests. This is a milestone on the way back to feudalism. The serfs will be asked to fight, plunder and pillage for their robber baron masters and they will get nothing but memories of battles and Great Lords taxing them for the chance.

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patrice

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Sun Jun-17-07 11:47 AM
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2. How do we fit the fact of tax subsidies into this meme?

Edited on Sun Jun-17-07 11:48 AM by patrice

You hear "Corporate Welfare", but I think, as you suggest, that we need a way of referring to the process by which corporations shift their overhead to the tax payer, something that contains the fact of their weakness as businesses that would not survive without their dependence upon our tax dollars.

"Corporatization" seems more broadly relevant to what is happening to our culture as a WHOLE.

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Jackpine Radical

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Sun Jun-17-07 12:00 PM
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6. The Corporate Handoff

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cassiepriam

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Sun Jun-17-07 11:52 AM
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3. How about just calling them crooks?

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Jackpine Radical

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Sun Jun-17-07 11:58 AM
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4. That's the ticket!

We'll do to the word "Corporation" (and the adjectival form "corporate") what the wingnuts did to "liberal." Oughtta be easy, actually, since the truth is on our side.

Lakoff Rules!

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sutz12

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Sun Jun-17-07 12:00 PM
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5. For "privatization" I prefer the term "privateering."

:evilgrin:

I agree, though, that the corporate structure has left the "private" part of their influence behind long ago.

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Jackpine Radical

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Sun Jun-17-07 12:01 PM
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7. Offshore corporate HQs--

"Privateers of the Caribbean"

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