Forum Post: The emergence of the corporate state ALWAYS means the emergence of the security state.

"Franklin Delano Roosevelt recognized the danger of unregulated capitalsm. He sent a message to congress in 1938 titled 'Recommendations to the Congress to curb monopolies and the concentration of economic power'. In it, he wrote this:

'The first truth is that the liberty of democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, or a group, or by any other controlling private power.'

'The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe, if its business system does not provide employment, and produce and distribute goods, in such a way to sustain an acceptable standard of living.' "

"The rise of the corporate state has grave political consequences. As we saw in Italy and Germany in the early part of the 20th century, anti-trust laws not only regulate and control the marketplace, they serve as bulwarks to protect democracy. And now that they are gone; now that we have a state run by, and on the behalf of, corporations, we must expect inevitable, and I fear, terrifying, consequences."

"As the pressure mounts. As this despair and desperation reaches into larger and larger segments of the population, the mechanisms of corporate and government control are being bolstered to prevent civil unrest and instability. The emergence of the corporate state ALWAYS means the emergence of the security state."

-Chris Hedges