Is America headed towards Corporate-Communism?

Question

Will big corporations eventually make it impossible for the smaller mom-and-pop companies to survive on their own?

While also creating a unseen system of socialism for the wealthy?

Answer 1

Absolutely assuming the socialists gain power in congress. Currently the majority in congress support a capitalist system, those in the minority seek a socialist system, which is in fact communism/fascism.

The search link below has several good sites and the first one will give you a clue as to who wants us to become a fascist corporate state.

Answer 2

Corporate Communism...

Kind of a paradox my friend but i see what you're getting at.

The answer is no and here's why.

Large business cannot survive without small business in fact 80% of businesses in the US are small businesses and all corporations started out as small businesses to medium sized businesses. Despite the new Global Market (Globalism) small businesses will always be around.

What you're refferring to is an Oligopoly. Big oil is considered an oligopoly (which it is because when talking about big oil you exclude the smaller companies by definition) but even they have small business competition look at 7 Eleven dumping Citgo to produce it's own gas with a smaller firm. Some connect oligopolies to monopolstic competition which is in itself paradoxial. However there are benefits to oligopolies and problems as well.

The most well know oligopoly is the wireless industry. Oil companies can be considered an oligopolistic competition. They can collude to raise prices and restrict production in the same way as a monopoly. Where there is a formal agreement for such collusion, this is known as a cartel. But it would be hard to prove such an action were taking place and although monopolies are illegal (thanks to Teddy Roosevelt in some part) oligopolies are not.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

It's already happened. We are the 'United States of Corporate America', and our government no longer is "of the people, for the people, and by the people". Corporations dictate to politicians how the country will function, and politicians don't have the gonads to oppose it. "We the PEOPLE..." is now "We the CORPORATIONS..." who control the elections, decide who will even run for office, and browbeat the common citizen into submission.
Smaller mom-and-pop shops are quickly losing ground to mega-corporations.
The military-industrial complex in this country is massive. Ever since World War II, big corporations recognized how profitable war could be, and they bought up all the politicians so that the business of "war" would be continuous. So, we had the Korean Conflict; the Cuban missile crisis; the Cold War; Vietnam; and Desert Storm (along with dozens of other little skirmishes). It's made the military-industrial fat cats really fat - and they're not about to give up all those billions in profits just for the sake of some stupid little idea like world PEACE. They're not about to give up billions in profits just to keep tens of thousands of innocent people and thousands of American soldiers from getting killed. Just as the Greek and Roman empires failed once hubris, greed and arrogance set in, this country is already on a slippery slope toward extinction as a world leader and global peacekeeper, thanks in large part to the cowboy tactics and bullying of the Bush administration. -RKO-

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Larger corporations are better for us as they are able to leverage economies of scale to provide us with lower prices. Local store owners complain about not being able to compete simply because they can't compete. And people like you and me (and even small business owners) are the ones who make it impossible for local businesses to compete by doing a vast majority of our shopping at big businesses.
And I am sure that we will hear from plenty of people who never shop at Wal-Mart (etc.) , because Wal-Mart is the multi-billion dollar retailer that noone shops at.

Answer 6

If our country changed it's name to the Corporate States
of America, it wouldn't surprise me.

Answer 7

If the mom and pop companies just sell out to them and make money then no.

Answer 8

"eventually" ?! It's already happening. Talk to a few local small business owners.

Answer 9

oh they already are....

Answer 10

NO!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!