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Chapter V : Anatomy Of The Corporate State, p. 107
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What looks like a man is only a representation of a man who does what the organization requires. He (or it) does not run the machine; he tends it.

— Charles A. Reich

What It Means

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Charles A. Reich

About Charles A. Reich

Charles Alan Reich (20 May 1928 – 15 June 2019) was an American legal and social scholar and a Professor at Yale Law School famous as the author of the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America.