A simple and common objection to anarchism is that any notion of communal control implies something akin to a StatE?. Anarchists reply that there is only a superficial similarity between the power hierarchies of and supporting corporations, on the one hand, and the layered division of labour in cooperatives, on the other. The State is created when private property is legitimized. By contrast, cooperatives, credit unions, and mutual aid societies are the principal instances of communal control and anarchists maintain that they do not involve the kind of authoritarianism found in corporations. If one compares both organizations using the items on the PsychopathyChecklist? as a guide then, an anarchist might hold, it becomes clear that cooperatives act like normal humans, humane, warm, feeling and stable while corporations can only be described as a psychopathic entity that cold-bloodedly uses workers for its own ends and acts on one impulse after another. As an example, one of the items on the PCL-R is "criminal versatility". Corporations have it, Microsoft demonstrates it when it buys companies expert in areas MS knows nothing about. In contrast, cooperatives cannot do this because it would violate their charters.
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