Few things so foolish as the Gramps-style anti-statist

[Karl]

hi jim

On 12/12/21, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit
> contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale
> corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. "
>
> https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-libertarian-as-conservative
> Except that some people "forget" that "state authoritarianism" is usually
> imposed involuntarily upon all inhabitants of a huge geographical land area,
> with essentially no competition at all.
> Whereas contract-based systems generally include very high levels of
> competition.
>
> So, calling them "identical" is laughably false.

what you say here makes sense; i think you're kind of saying that
governments have an enforced monopoly in their territory, such that
there are fewer natural systems keeping them in line.

do you have any thoughts on how, in the day-to-day world, one would
handle oppression by a corporation vs oppression by a government?