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The problem isn't "corporations". It's capitalism

The problem isn't "corporations". It's capitalism

How US liberalism got stuck on critiques of corporations.

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Carl Beijer
May 05, 2023
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Corporations are some of the most vilified and least understood institutions in the contemporary US. On the left they have become synonymous with bigness, power, greed, and profit-driven misanthropy; some will even use “corporatism” interchangeably with “capitalism”.

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