RadioRaheem84
18th December 2009, 20:29
Corporatism is probably one of the most ill used words by people only surpassed by fascism. I hear liberals and right wingers alike misuse the word. Naomi Klein (love her to death but..) used it in the Shock Doctrine. Milton Friedman uses the word to excuse capitalism from market manipulation and state coercion. It's supposed mean some dumb assertion that its the corporate and state power merging together. This is wrongly attributed to Mussolini who had a totally different outlook on corporations than what people think of today. His corporatism was one of where the economy was to be collectively managed by employers, workers and state officials by formal mechanisms at national level. It was influenced by the Catholic guild system.
Libertarians erroneously use the word and misrepresent Mussolini's quote as a way of excusing the flaws of capitalism and the faulty belief in perfect competition. Corporatism in the sense that they describe it is just what capitalism does.
As Oswald Mosley relays:
http://www.oswaldmosley.com/the-corporate-state.htm
The whole body is generally directed by the central driving brain of government without which no body and system of society can operate. This does not mean control from Whitehall, or constant interference by Government with the business of industry. But it does mean that Government, or rather the Corporate system, will lay down the limits within which individuals and interests may operate. Those limits are the welfare of the nation - not, when all is said, a very unreasonable criterion. Within these limits, all activity is encouraged; individual enterprise, and the making of a profit, are not only permitted, but encouraged so long as that enterprise enriches rather than damages by its activity the nation as a whole.
Libertarians erroneously use the word and misrepresent Mussolini's quote as a way of excusing the flaws of capitalism and the faulty belief in perfect competition. Corporatism in the sense that they describe it is just what capitalism does.
As Oswald Mosley relays:
http://www.oswaldmosley.com/the-corporate-state.htm
The whole body is generally directed by the central driving brain of government without which no body and system of society can operate. This does not mean control from Whitehall, or constant interference by Government with the business of industry. But it does mean that Government, or rather the Corporate system, will lay down the limits within which individuals and interests may operate. Those limits are the welfare of the nation - not, when all is said, a very unreasonable criterion. Within these limits, all activity is encouraged; individual enterprise, and the making of a profit, are not only permitted, but encouraged so long as that enterprise enriches rather than damages by its activity the nation as a whole.