Comments on: Ames Talks About “Corporate Communism” On MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting” With Dylan Ratigan

By: frank espinosa

frank espinosa — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:01:52 +0000

this comment i am trying to post now is stupid as fuk!??there is no such thig as the tooth fairy and yet my mommy keeps putting quarters under my pillow and what i think is that this is the invisible hand of adam smith.what their (if you’re retarded like me you write “their” instead of “they’re”) talking about is pure capatilism, whereas what i worship is pure retardation. if i want to know what communism is i let my mommy read the fukin bookz to me at night although non retards you can read any book you want 4 yourself. i wish i could fuk these two things that hang in my scrotum bags….power to the retarded commenters. why argue when you can post comments in lower-case…

By: Richard Sievert

Richard Sievert — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:15:07 +0000

And I am not ever going back there so please Keep this sight opened and to the public for witch it stands one nation under god indivisible yadeeyadeeyada actually i will admit it i am a traitor and a hippie fag i wish my country to be destroyed and occupied by peruvian flute-players

By: Richard Sievert

Richard Sievert — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:11:13 +0000

Quadrillion Dollar Man Is right I replied to a comment on msnbc last night and a server came on and publicly took my reply out because i am a complete fucking idiot and don’t have anything interesting to say but i think i do. if only more sites censored idiots like me this world would be a better place

By: chugs

chugs — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:48:52 +0000

it seemed a bit weak to be frank.

you need to tell us what laws and changes were made to benefit those companies, what actions they took to create those changes.

By: aleke

aleke — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:48:43 +0000

hahahahh “Communism is Socialism+Fascism” hahahhahahhahhahhhah

By: Robert D

Robert D — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:17:55 +0000

Corporate Communism, eh?

I’d say that’s quite a smart appropriation of a word that’s been demonised by the American political mainstream for the last 100 years.

It’s using their own terminology against them as a weapon.

Yeah, so you can claim that it’s merely bandying around a new buzz word, but it does actually refer to a fairly specific set of circumstances that are taking place right now, and it’s not at all a bad term to describe those circumstances.

By: LIExpressway

LIExpressway — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:48:37 +0000

The evil Corporations are not fascist. Fascism has nothing to do with economics whereas communism and capitalism are solely concerned with it.
The Tea Party’s, WN’s ,KKK, and Militias are better examples of Fascism.
Bush and Cheney are not Fascist by the way.

Fascism “is a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion” – according to Paxton

By: TomTom

TomTom — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:57:54 +0000

I’m not sure Mark, surely you’re more intelligent to join in the average bolshie-bashing media mass? To me it discredits your journalism when you’re so prepared to just throw stock words around for the amusement of shock jockeys.

By: Ilona

Ilona — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:02:00 +0000

Yeah, yeah…

Give the good, old protectionism a fancy(?), oldish name…

It’s the same good old, same old… No matter who’s money is spent…

And what do you think whose’s money is spent?

Sad song.

By: Plamen Petkov

Plamen Petkov — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:06:24 +0000

Americans make me laugh when they start throwing around terms they have NO idea

By: thuggin

thuggin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:43:25 +0000

corporate communism? is that they best they could have thought? and why put the hammer and sickle on the “O” and not flip it for the “C” … and don’t try and say msnbc viewers would notice the difference.

By: Flatulissimo

Flatulissimo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:02:59 +0000

Other, more accurate terms may exist, but emotionally “Corporate Communism” is going to pack a bigger punch with the average joe, so it gets my vote.

By: james

james — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:17:34 +0000

To quote Nietzsche, I am a twerp.

By: mug

mug — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:29:49 +0000

First the right uses ‘fascist’ as a pejorative and now the left uses ‘communist’. I love it.

By: lawrence

lawrence — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:52:48 +0000

I shouldn’t comment here because it says something weird about who i really am.

By: rossiya

rossiya — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:13:47 +0000

internal exile: Yes, you hit it. Corporatism is right-wing fascism. Communism is left-wing fascism, or socialism+fascism. What we have today is merchantilism. Now the merchantilist threat is no longer foreign nations, but the lower classes. Today the Vatican holds 60% of the gold, the Rothschilds trade this real consideration with bluebloods while raining monopoly money upon the proletariat. It’s a grand pyramid and the bottom rung won’t have a proverbial pot to piss in. The Black Pope claims religious authority, extends secular authority by morally authenticating aristocracy and monarchy, and exerts temporal power through dialectics of war, brokering both sides. Communism is secular Catholicism and we will soon see the fall of Adam Smith’s free market in favor of preplanned common markets like China, the EU and NAU.

By: Quadrillion Dollar Man

Quadrillion Dollar Man — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:58:13 +0000

I won’t be bothered to give idiots a lesson in etymology. It will suffice to quote from Wikipedia:

“Most of the European economists who wrote between 1500 and 1750 are today generally considered mercantilists; this term was initially used solely by critics, such as Mirabeau and Smith, but was quickly adopted by historians. Originally the standard English term was “mercantile system”. The word “mercantilism” was introduced into English from German in the early 19th century.”

By: internal exile

internal exile — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:21:02 +0000

No “isms” in the 17th century?

Mercantilism on Wikipedia:

Mercantilism was the dominant school of thought throughout the early modern period (from the 16th to the 18th century). Domestically, this led to some of the first instances of significant government intervention and control over the economy,

By: az

az — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:07:11 +0000

See, this is also what fucks him over. As soon as he questions people on those grounds, they say “Well aren’t you for public option? What about the govt takeovers of GM and stuff?” just like that ball-licking Republican said to him that time. Therefore, you can either accept the bullshit pushed on you like he does and eventually realize that only by being a complete libertarian idealist can you avoid being called a hypocrite, or you can just point out the bullshit and run with it. Though I guess in Ratigan’s case that would end his show rather quickly.

By: Dr. Luny

Dr. Luny — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:09:51 +0000

I too am surprised that they allow the truth on television, perhaps MSNBC’s minders have given them a little too much license as the “far-left” element of the mainstream media. Ames is exactly right, the political system has been so thoroughly corrupted that powerful private interests are using influence in government to carve out vast economic rents at the expense of the productive economy. From a classical economic perspective, profits are only possible due to distortion in competitive markets, the kind of gross distortion that occurs when the monopolistic industries manipulate government policy to shape their markets to siphon off as many resources as possible. It’s just plain shitty governance.