Several months ago one of these so called business leaders made the comment to the effect the US needed to move on to a new understanding of how business works and the US needed to become more like the Chinese model where govt and business work together.
Business supports the govt and govt supports the business by putting their competition out of business.
For all you people that want to hang onto the fantasy we are going to Marxism, if the left was taking us to Marxism business wouldn’t support it.
With Marxism business would become the property of the state.
With National Socialism (Nazism) business and the state work together to put their completion out of business.
That’s where the left is taking us.
“........[John] Podesta has revolutionized the influence game by giving it the patina of intellectual respectability. Traditional lobbying has become blasé; it’s much better, much nobler, to enlist corporate “partnerships” in the progressive cause. As first reported by The Nation, the Center for American Progress has a number of corporate sponsors that pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to join its “Business Alliance.” In return for payment these corporations gain access to the center’s scholars, its leadership, and its events with major Democratic officials. On Friday CAP released a list of its 2013 “corporate supporters,” including multinationals such as Citigroup and Coca-Cola and Daimler and Samsung; firms such as Albright Stonebridge and McLarty Associates and the Livingston Group that represent foreign interests; and affiliates of foreign governments such as the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative in the United States and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.”.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3101743/posts
For starters there isn't a "Nationalism" component. These are global companies and nationalism has nothing to do with it.
As far as the question of Marxism vs. Socialism, both are systems where the government has the ultimate authority. Any other distinction between the two forms of government is not very significant.