Trader Joeās, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumersāthe NLRB and FTCāare āunconstitutional.ā
Trader Joeās has become the second company in a month to sue the National Labor Relations Board for being āunconstitutional,ā following the lead of Elon Muskās SpaceX, as both companies face board charges for firing employees. These two major corporations arenāt alone in attempting to protect their interests by undermining public institutions; Meta is also arguing in an ongoing lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission is unconstitutional.
A legal expert told Motherboard that these companies are attempting to take advantage of what they believe is a friendly Supreme Courtājudges currently lean right by a six-to-three margināwhile they can.
corporatism is indistiguishable from fascism. when corporations rule the state, the stateās interests include the maintaining of the corporatocracy, and the corporations serve the state. every social institution becomes subsumed either by the state directly or by corporate interests directly, but regardless of which expression of power seizes the institution, they are serving the fascists state.
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In a way yes. But also in a way no. As there isnāt a state. There are just corporations. There is no state to feed.
the state must protect the private property claims.
That lacks imagination. This is America, after all. We can have corporate armies and police.
the courts are still part of the trappings of legitimacy.
Why? Canāt corporations simply claim ownership manifest destiny and all that.