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  Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central
institutions of society have to be under popular control.  Now, under
capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition.  Capitalism is a
system in which the central institutions of society are in principle
under autocratic control.  Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if
we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has
tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established
at every level -- there's little bargaining, a little give and take,
but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward.  Just as I'm
opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism.  I
think that until the major institutions of society are under the
popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to
talk about democracy.
                                          from Noam Chomsky
                                          Language and Politics (1988)
                                          p.162.

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