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part of the problem is that folk retain an opposition between large-scale firms and the state.
a defense contractor, for example: is it really inside or outside the state?
if a supply chain integrates a series of formally independent firms into a single, continuous production system, what meaning does the formal independence functionally have? obviously it matters from an accounting viewpoint, in that formal independence enables an externalizing of costs--but i consider that a legal fiction, really.
the extends what i was saying before: if what matters is flows and interconnections created around/by flows and not discrete spaces, it follows that thinking in terms of a separation between corporate and state entities is naive.
the question is bad.
on the other hand, as a litmus test of the extent to which the surreal, useless ideology of neoliberalism/"free markets" etc continues to infect thinking, it's interesting.
it's simply about ideology and not about the world that ideology in this case does not describe.
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