Talk:Corporate police state

"A Corporate police state is a system of government in which corporations control the power and money of a society." In what way?

"This form of government would use that power to enact laws which maximize corporate profits without regard for personal liberty."

But a corporation is simply an entity with split ownership. For example if everything was one giant corporation, with everyone as a shareholder, it would basically be communism. So maximizing corperate profits would maximize everyones profits.

-- Edited last April 10 2003, Ken Mondschein, editor@corporatemofo.com '''Snow Crash depicts the absence of a central powerful state; in its absence, corporations perform its functions themselves. The United States has been corporate-dominated within the last 150 years -- look particularly at the industrialization of the United States between the Civil War and WW I -- so this is really nothing new. This definition is badly flawed and politicized and needs to be rethought. . . but I am unwilling to just erase it.''' -- new user clarka

I can't imagine the expression "corporate police state" appearing in NPOV speech or prose, yet I also am unwilling to just erase it. From my (admittedly biased) perspective, it just somehow "rings true". What the article needs is research, specifically concerning police agencies (agencies with the power of arrest persons) with corporate principals ("principal" is to "agent" as "jump" is to "how high"). --Lori

Um, I don't think corporate police state is a word used elsewhere. Maybe it is, I have heard corporate state many times, and use it myself with the same meaning as corporate police state. I think we are using police state here just to be doubly clear, which may be more appropriate since I understand England has stated that it is a corporate state, but certainly it isn't a full police state. Lir 06:48 Nov 13, 2002 (UTC)

Just saw the re-edit. . . nice. . . would be nice to add something about Hearst and Rockefeller and Ford and corporate paternalism historically. -- new user clarka