Posted on 06/11/2008 1:14:21 PM PDT by awer775
Geez—we haven’t had a commie rant as idiotic as this one in a while. Eschoir—is that you?
Contemporary popular (as opposed to social science) usage of the term is more pejorative, especially when used in the shorter form corporatism emphasizing the role of business corporations in government decision-making at the expense of the public. The power of business to affect government legislation through lobbying and other avenues of influence in order to promote their interests is usually seen as detrimental to those of the public. In this respect, corporatism may be characterized as an extreme form of regulatory capture, and is also termed corporatocracy, a form of plutocracy. If there is substantial military-corporate collaboration it is often called militarism or the military-industrial complex.
Political scientists may also use the term corporatism to describe a practice whereby a state, through the process of licensing and regulating officially-incorporated social, religious, economic, or popular organizations, effectively co-opts their leadership or circumscribes their ability to challenge state authority by establishing the state as the source of their legitimacy, as well as sometimes running them, either directly or indirectly through corporations. This usage is particularly common in the area of East Asian studies, and is sometimes also referred to as state corporatism.
Many critics of free market theories, such as George Orwell[verification needed], have argued that corporatism (in the sense of an economic system dominated by massive corporations) is the natural result of free market capitalism.
Critics of capitalism often argue that any form of capitalism would eventually devolve into corporatism, due to the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands. A permutation of this term is corporate globalism. John Ralston Saul argues that most Western societies are best described as corporatist states, run by a small elite of professional and interest groups, that exclude political participation from the citizenry.
Other critics, namely Mancur Olson in The Logic of Collective Action, argue that corporatist arrangements exclude some groups, notably the unemployed, and are thus responsible for high unemployment.
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Corporatism and Fascism
Some critics equate too much corporate power and influence with fascism. Often they cite a quote claimed to be from Mussolini: “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” Several variations of the alleged quote exist. However no text written by Mussolini has yet been found with any variation of the alleged quote.
IBTZ
Silly Wabbit, Tricks are for Kids.
The writing style is more like Michelle’s thesis.
Fascism, as defined by a leftist,
is anything that opposes their collectivist Utopia.
When in reality, Fascism is EXACTLY what they want.
Totalitarian Collectivism.
“Profit is theft. Profit is the stealing from the customer whatever percentage is more than the product or service took to make.”
Then where is the incentive to make the product or provide the service? And why does it always end up being a gun screwed into someone’s ear? And what’s so damn just and fair about that?
School’s out. And he/she/it doesn’t have a summer job.....
The leftist fascists intend to put all “counter revolutionaries” up against the wall and shoot them when they get the power to do so.
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The Republican Party has passed tax cuts and tax deductions to businesses and the very wealthy with most to the top 1 percent of Americans. The Republican Party has tried to hide its real agenda behind catchy slogans like "compassionate conservatism" but practice "compassionate corporatism." Sixty-one percent of businesses do not pay any federal income tax. Bush -- Nero II -- and his party's prime objective is to make the rich richer and all powerful.
Charles H. Kuhn
Saginaw Township
Probably a chicom.
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God, what a moron. If he’s so against “profit,” I wonder if he works just to break even with his subsistance needs.
Dang!
I missed the deflated Vietnamese dong thread AND this commie rat public hanging.
You dirty rat you....see my tag-line.
Burn in hell.
Sincerely
Your mother, Mrs. Hortence Awer775
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