As Kolko pointed out, all the various measures of federal
regulation and welfare statism that left and right alike have always believed
to be mass movements against Big Business are not only now backed to the hilt
by Big Business, but were originated by it for the very purpose of shifting
from a free market to a cartelized economy that would benefit it. Imperialistic
foreign policy and the permanent garrison state originated in the Big Business
drive for foreign investments and for war contracts at home.
The role of the liberal intellectuals is to serve as
"corporate liberals," weavers of sophisticated apologias to inform
the masses that the heads of the American corporate state are ruling on behalf
of the "common good" and the "general welfare"—like the
priest in the Oriental despotism who convinced the masses that their emperor
was all-wise and divine.
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