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"Corporate Americans"

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted January 18, 2005.


George Bush’s “Ownership Society” represents a new form of economic populism — a populism born in the Hobbesian belief that we all struggle alone in a world where life is nasty, brutish and short.

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Joshua Holland is a fair-trade activist, a student of international relations at the University of Southern California and Editor-in-Chief of the Trojan Horse, USC's lefty muckraker.

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