What is the difference between Corportism and Capitalism?

[bryant69]

I know I've asked this before, but I think it's worth returning to every so often.

Bryant
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[Dora]

1. Corporatism is....

the sheepskin on the wolf of aristocracy.

[Virginia Dare]

2. The difference...

http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/CORPORATISM

Noun: corporatism
Control of a state or organization by large interest groups
"individualism is in danger of being swamped by a kind of corporatism"
- corporativism


Noun: capitalism 'kapi`tlizum
An economic system based on private ownership of capital
- capitalist economy

[LSK]

3. please read this book

http://www.amazon.com/Screwed-Undeclared-Against-Middle-Currents/dp/1576754634/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7219525-9620833?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193255552&sr=1-1

Corporatism is basically building monopolies and buying out your competition (especially with Govt help from buying politicians).

Capitalism is honest competition and letting the marketplace decide who has the better product for better prices.

When Corporatism is allowed to flourish, competition is undermined and eliminated and that is the opposite of capitalism.

[Virginia Dare]

7. Interesting article about corporatism...

which claims that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was actually a form of corporatism.

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/corporatism.htm

[LSK]

12. from wikipedia

"In the United States Republican President Ronald Reagan<11><12><13> echoed Republican President Herbert Hoover and others who claimed that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs represented a move in the direction of a corporatist state. These claims are highly disputed. In particular these critics focussed on the National Recovery Administration. In 1935 Herbert Hoover described<14> some of the New Deal measures as "Fascist regimentation." In his 1951 memoirs<15> he used the phrases "early Roosevelt fascist measures", and "this stuff was pure fascism", and "a remaking of Mussolini's corporate state". For sources and more info see The New Deal and corporatism.

These claims continue to be aired in right-wing publications. These authors also discuss modern American corporatism.<16><17>"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

(see the sources)

[bbgrunt]

4. corporatism is the end result of unregulated capitalism

It is the inevitable tendency of any system where information is controlled and the populace is complacent.

[libnnc]

5. In my mind

Capitalism is my great grandfather's mercantile and my great grandmother's boarding house.

Corporatism is Wal-Fart and Holiday Inn.



Corporatism bleeds a community dry.

[supernova]

6. Capitalism is a system of economic organization

involving free enterprise and individual gain. It is value-neutral term, neither good nor bad on it's own.

Left unchecked capitalism can turn into corporatism, the outright appropriation of public life, including the government, by corporations.

[mmonk]

8. Corporatism is making capitalism or corporations

a part of government or substitute. Capitalism is people acquiring capital and starting businesses.

[TechBear_Seattle]

9. Laissez-faire capitalism = strong libertarianism

Corporatism = fascism.

[Romulox]

10. Corporatism is the control of our government by Multi-National for-profit entities. nt

[CT_Progressive]

11. Ethics.

Next question.

[rudeboy666]

13. A muddled mess....

....the word 'corporatism' is thrown around so much (and very loosely) that it is becoming an almost meaningless term of abuse (at least in relation to the historical and technical sense of the term).