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In the context of what's going on today with the finanial bailouts, CDS's, etc., etc....this recently discovered (I've never read any Lenin until recently) Lenin quote I found interesting...
The supremacy of finance capital over all other forms of capital means the predominance of the rentier and of the financial oligarchy; it means that a small number of financially “powerful” states stand out among all the rest. The extent to which this process is going on may be judged from the statistics on emissions, i.e., the issue of all kinds of securities.
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fantastic. please ping me with your future posts on this subject if you are doing a ping list. thanks.
>>government control and corruption by the corporations
Increasingly one and the same.
Corporatism, Collectivism, State Communism - all being forms of the same ugly facet of human nature, where the collective structure of governance becomes the mandated object of worship by subjugated individuals.
For a Biblical reference see “BAAL” - which is a Hebrew word meaning “Master, Lord, Posessor...”; and which, in Babylon, was the State.
It was precisely that nature from which the founders intended to protect themselves and their progeny. Thus the 1st amendment, secured by the 2nd.