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The Fifth Freedom
Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky
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concerned to maintain a system based on the Fifth Freedom, and the
parochial interests of particular corporations, even major ones such as
the oil companies, sometimes conflict with this end, in which case the
state, representing the long-term global interests of US capitalism,
generally prevails. At times, the very same individuals will reach
different decisions in their institutional roles as corporate executives or
state managers, not surprisingly, given the different framework of
planning guided by essentially the same interests. Such cases may foster
a conception of independence of the state from dominant business
interests, largely an illusion, though not entirely so as a close
examination indicates. 46