“Already in the last few decades, economic powers have reached the point of imperiling the stability of the state through new forms of the circulation of capital that go by the generic name of multinational corporations.”

— Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p. 5

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French philosopher 1924–1998

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“Already in the last few decades, economic powers have reached the point of imperiling the stability of the state through new forms of the circulation of capital that go by the generic name of multinational corporations.”

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