How The Military Industrial Complex and Silicon Valley Helped Birth The Black Panther Party

Author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris joins the program to discuss how the government and military-industrial complex hijacked innovation in Palo Alto California.

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One thing that really struck me too is the just turning back to the railroads and their role in the foundation of California. I wrote about corporate personhood and things of that nature in college. And the railroads in California birthed the Supreme Court's notion of corporate personhood in Santa Clara County Railroad versus Southern Pacific writer. I'm forgetting the exact case name that was longer. But that was the origin of the notion that corporations could be treated as human beings under the 14th Amendment. Which is you can know the first step in what we saw culminating in the case as citizens united. Where now they have free speech rights that also equal money. Which was established in Buckley v. Vallejo. But like in terms of California or Palo Alto being a laboratory for American capitalism that's also one of the pillars of that. absolutely and not just the legal precedent of corporate personhood which you're right comes out of Southern Pacific B Santa Clara County. Which is an aggregate aggregation of cases around the Southern Pacific and whether they could act like a person or whether they were entitled to rights. But even the concept of the corporation, the capitalist entity as a personality as something or even an impersonal personality as something larger than any family or group of people is also of this period right? And so we have the acknowledgment of impersonal forces as controlling and dominating society. And it's dominating the relationship of people to society through these impersonal forces. That is then personified in people like Leland Stanford. and we can see this in cartoons where Leland Stanford is constantly represented in various super personal forms like the octopus being the most famous one. Where right we still represent Capital as an octopus right. But it comes from the Southern Pacific and ideas of these corporations as entities right? Like acting entities as opposed to just collections of people. Let's turn to the 20th century. where California is getting Hollywood right? but they're also getting the military-industrial complex. and a bunch of Cold War money kind of just explodes. and California is at the center of that. How was Palo Alto kind of positioned in this military-industrial complex boom? And how did that become what we know as or feed into the big Tech Center that it is today?