Corporate police state
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A Corporate police state is a pejorative term for the kind of transnational system of government that transcends geographic boundaries to regulate the conduct of employees, outsource contractors and markets, via a form of business practices known as vertical integration. Corporate police states combine an economy based on private enterprise, especially large business corporations, with a repressive and authoritarian government. It is envisioned that a corporate police state could manifest itself in a kind of modern feudalism, or, in combination with sufficient nationalism and strong state power, could turn into a variant of fascism.
Corporate police states are commonly depicted in dystopian popular literature, particularly the cyberpunk genre of science fiction, and in some web sites like Infowars. See Megacorp.
[edit] Literature
- He, She and It
- Neuromancer by William Gibson (see zaibatsu)
- Chronicles of Doodah by George Lee Walker
- Jennifer Government by Max Barry
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
[edit] Movies
- Aliens
- Brazil (film)
- Rollerball (both 1975 and 2002)
- RoboCop
- THX 1138
- Ghost in the Shell
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)
