“I’m just proposing the term be used carefully and properly, rather than sloppily to mean anything other than a government hostile to business.”
All variations are archaic, inefficient, and minimize the role and freedom of the individual as opposed to some group or other. All variations degenerate into crony capitalism at the very best. Something like it worked very well for a very long time in the later Roman republic and empire, but that was not a very happy place or time for most people, and the ‘yeoman class’ was effectively non-existent or even allowed to rise. Corporatism can work after a fashion, but is very much less than traditional American liberties and is definitely at odds with the Constitution.
Oh, I quite agree.
Corporatism, in its actual meaning, is at base the result of an emotional rejection of representative democracy and free market economics but an unwillingness to bounce over to the socialist side.
As I have stated earlier, it’s one of the numerous attempts to develop a “Third Way” between or other than the American system or socialism.