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James A. Donald:
> > Comie fantasy. That theory is Marx's "monopoly capitalism".
> > Commies have been loudly announcing Marx's prophecies to be
> > coming true, even though after 1910 they no longer took the
> > prophecies seriously themselves.
On 11 Mar 2003 at 7:04, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> Open your eyes and look around yourself. Take any bigger,
> established market - news, radio, TV stations, retail chains
> are the first examples coming to my mind - take its top
> 80-90%, and count the number of players there.
Children's cartoons used to be overwhelmingly dominated by
Disney. Now Disney is going down for the third time AOL used
to have a disproportionate share of the internet, Time magazine
used to dominate the newsmagazine business.
Looks to me like News and radio are becoming substantially less
centralized, not more.
True, the former leaders are consolidating -- because they are
no longer the former leaders, and they are going broke. The
AOL/Time/Disney combo will soon be in bankruptcy the way things
are going, If they pull out, they will remain as a tiny shadow
of their former selves.
As I said, communists recognized there prophecies were turning
out false in 1910 -- which does not stop them from announcing
twice as loudly that their prophecies are coming true.
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