Authoritarians United: Don’t Expect Much From The Corporations Either

*Is that supposed to be a dollar sign walking up a spiral staircase? I have so many questions for whoever designed this.*

So far, I’ve written three of these short posts addressing how various parts of the State who are responsible for keeping the government inside its lane could be expected to fail in the face of the current fascist coup in the United States:

Today, let’s look outside the government.

Corporations, especially nation-sized ones, are natural allies to a fascist State.

Almost all corporations in the United States are organized along extremely authoritarian lines, with all power centralized at the top of a hierarchy and delegated down through the org chart.

Fundamentally, the standard corporate structure mirrors the structure of a standard oligarchy:

a small band of oligarchs (the Board of Directors), who appoint the ruler/CEO
the ruler/CEO appoints the heads of departments
this system of appointed-ruler-who-appoints-sub-rulers repeats until you get to individual citizens/workers
who are the least powerful and influential and get orders from everyone above them

So an authoritarian coup taking control of the State is merely the expression of the same authoritarian impulse that already drives the organization of the corporation.

So, ya know, birds of a feather fash together.

You might be forgiven for thinking that our corporate overlords would resist a takeover by aspiring government overlords, if only out of self-interest; it takes the bosses down a peg and installs a new boss above them after all.

But that seems not to be the case.

So far, class solidarity and social affinity seem to be winning out over individual self-interest, provided that the class is “rich” and the affinity is “authoritarian”.

So, don’t expect much resistance from the corporations.

Law firms, universities, entertainment conglomerates and tech behemoths have all knuckled under.

Not all of them, certainly; some law firms and some universities have taken to the courts to challenge illegal abuses of State power by the regime.

But as a general rule, don’t expect the corporations to do much.

As with the courts and the police, corporate authoritarians have more in common with the coup than they do with the vast majority of the citizens.

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