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emperorbma ago

Company acquisition is the path from capitalism to corporatism. It's an important distinction to make, too.

Capitalism is the economy of the workers trading the fruits of their labors to acquire for their needs. The "farmers' market" or the "mom and pop" selling stuff to their community.

Corporatism is the ramrod of an ever growing "big business" maximizing their profit at the expense of everyone else so that shareholders can get a bigger cut.

This is the logical difference that socialists don't understand. Socialists conflate the latter with the former. But that's as dumb as suggesting that all lung tissue is cancer because you can get lung cancer.

Ultimately, the difference between corporatism and socialism is little to none. Both are giving more power to middle managers with no regard for anyone but themselves. The socialist (fake) "workers' revolution" gives power to a political Politburo. The capitalist amalgamation becomes cancerous when it turns into corporate crap.

Small businesses are real capitalism. Small businesses are the real "worker's revolution" because it takes power out of the hands of the managers and puts it into the hands of the people. We need real capitalism, not socialism or corporatism. People working for themselves and their community, not for an anonymous "investor" somewhere that serves "powers unknown."

LexOrandiLexCredendi ago

Even the word "corporatism" is a misused term. Formerly it referred to a legit system of protecting the labor rights of craftsmen through the guild system (which wasn't perfect, but better than nothing).

A better word is "plutocracy", but even my spell checker doesn't recognize that one.

AnthraxAlex ago

I always figured it was just corporate communism when a corporate monopoly or monopoly of corporate interests seize the means of production and start social engineering large parts of society.They are essentially just acting as the party and subvert any capitalist principles in order to maintain control. Look at google, every other day there are some new internal materials released where they talk about their desire to engineer every social system and that they are moving away from principles of free speech, private ownership etc etc. they just incorporated Marxism and because they were previously a capitalist entity at one point years and years ago in the past can use it as a cover.

LexOrandiLexCredendi ago

Actually they are following down the road of the Foundations in bringing capitalism and Marxism into a unified system.

Check out Norman Dodd's interview on YouTube about his research for the Reece Committee. The Globalist plan has been going for over 100 years now and both corporations and NGOs are at the heart of it.