Ever read the 45 communist goals for the USA? Gaining control of “multinational tech giants” is the 37th goal on that list. With leftists, there is no distinction between such companies and government.
I am FAR more worried about the multinational tech giants abusing the system than I am worried about the state doing it. If the state gets caught, it will probably get a whupping at the next election. …
“Infiltrate and gain control of big business.”
Yes.
It’s a goal that was conceived before the technology age, when the perception was that taking control of manufacturing and mining/refining would be essential to neutralising western power.
It was largely rendered redundant by the USA and UK moving away from heavy industry in favour of service economies, letting Asia take the lead on microelectronics, and the fetish for offshoring/downsizing in the 80s.
MBAs and venture capital quarterly numbers obsessions were enabling the commie takeover 30 years before we even had Woke.
Tech giants and mass production of cheap goods were encouraged BY CAPITALISM to move their HQs around the world, bypass competition rules, and find the sweat shops.
They’re now uncontrollable.
The commies don’t need to own the tech giants because the tech giants are already beyond democratic control.
The commie manifesto is a red herring; a far more apt reference is the WW2 reaction to Zaibatsu in Japan.
By the 80s it had turned into a silly meme for the movie industry with Nakatomi in Die Hard, Yutani in Aliens and OCP’s aggressive acquisition by Kanemitsu in Robocop 3. Almost always painting Japan not China or Russia as the puppet master being a “too big to fail” global megacorp.
The concept also fed into Taco Bell in Demolition Man. As a result of all this, Wall Street loves business until it becomes a diversified conglomerate, applies a huge risk rating, artificially deflates it’s value, and then wonders why the American giants are now all part owned by China.