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Re:You are a Marxist – but don't worry by alexeisadeski3 on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @06:05PM (#7388706)
"the US has already seen private companies running company towns and using their own private army to kill people."

Sounds pretty tame to the actions of the US state, doesn't it?

Re:You are a Marxist – but don't worry by mpyne on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @09:51PM (#7389659)
No, it doesn't, if you actually look at the history (though to be fair, the state was sometimes complicit back then as well).
Re:You are a Marxist – but don't worry by alexeisadeski3 on Thursday March 13, 2014 @07:20AM (#7391100)
I'm looking at the history... Do not any US corporations doing anything near as bad as enslaving tens of thousands of Americans - then sending them off to die in muddy European trenches.