United Fruit Company in Guatemala, Shell Oil in Nigeria, BP in Iran... there are countless examples of corporations paying off people to do their dirty work for them
The East India Company, Pinkerton Investigations...
What did you think my point was, I'm interested to see how I could be more clear in the future.
A democracy is structured to be open and conflict is embedded to force decision-making by consensus and compromise.
Corporations are structured to be closed, authoritarian structures.
We're lucky there isn't much history of corporations having state-like scale + monopoly on legitimate violence. Super lucky.
If it has the latter, it is, by definition, the State. Irrespective of scale (and state-like scale is meaningless.)