... is an awfully easy critique.

And much of the changes to what corporations "can do" are not changes in the organization or intrinsic capacities of corporations, but rather a matter of regaining permission to do things that at one time had been revoked, up to and including the one time revoked but increasingly regained right of hire and operate a private army.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.