History repeats itself and this experiment has been tried before with Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany. As large corporations consolidated their control over the German economy they decided to back Hitler financially. He promised to discipline labor and effectively stimulated the economy with rearmament. However the notion that any o…
History repeats itself and this experiment has been tried before with Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany. As large corporations consolidated their control over the German economy they decided to back Hitler financially. He promised to discipline labor and effectively stimulated the economy with rearmament. However the notion that any one corporation could control the state was proven completely false. The state is by its nature coercive. It possesses a army. The dictator can compel any corporation to conform to his policy. The minute a Musk tries to impose his corporate interests on a Hitler like dictator he will find out who has the real power. How does the state operate in circumstances where there is no accountability? Like a mafia. Trump makes it very clear that he wants personal benefits from power. If Musk studies China he should look at what the purge of Communists on the corporate take was all about. Musk will be the first to go the minute he tries to control Trump.
German corporations came out of WW2 with a wrecked economy and their factories in ruin. There will be no US unscathed coming out of an imperialist war with nuclear weapons to rebuild Musk's empire.
Recently FT editorialized that Musk needed to go back to what he does best. That isn't running a political system where power ultimately is derived from the people and their consent.
History repeats itself and this experiment has been tried before with Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany. As large corporations consolidated their control over the German economy they decided to back Hitler financially. He promised to discipline labor and effectively stimulated the economy with rearmament. However the notion that any one corporation could control the state was proven completely false. The state is by its nature coercive. It possesses a army. The dictator can compel any corporation to conform to his policy. The minute a Musk tries to impose his corporate interests on a Hitler like dictator he will find out who has the real power. How does the state operate in circumstances where there is no accountability? Like a mafia. Trump makes it very clear that he wants personal benefits from power. If Musk studies China he should look at what the purge of Communists on the corporate take was all about. Musk will be the first to go the minute he tries to control Trump.
German corporations came out of WW2 with a wrecked economy and their factories in ruin. There will be no US unscathed coming out of an imperialist war with nuclear weapons to rebuild Musk's empire.
Recently FT editorialized that Musk needed to go back to what he does best. That isn't running a political system where power ultimately is derived from the people and their consent.