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Corporate statism [state corporatism] (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by CubitOom to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Corporate statism or state corporatism is a political culture and a form of corporatism the proponents of which claim or believe that corporate groups should form the basis of society and the state. By this principle, the state requires all citizens to belong to one of several officially designated interest groups (based generally on economic sector), which consequently have great control of their members. Such interest groups thus attain public status, and they or their representatives participate with national policymaking, at least formally.[1]

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[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 29 points 1 month ago

That's the dream of the big tech, to become an institution of the state. Democracies all around the world have become dependent on their products, it's like we brought the egg of the snake inside our homes.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Socialism works the same way. They frame it as the state absorbing corporations instead of corporations absorbing the state, but the result is the same. In a free society, the state and corporations need to remain separate, with corporations providing the services that involve substantial risk and can be permitted to fail, while the state provides the essential services where failure isn't an option.

Corporations should be small and nimble while government should be big and stable. The problems start when you expect or allow one to act like the other.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Not really. There are various way to interpret workers owning the means of production. Some of these interpretation consider the state as nothing more than an entity made of workers, and therefore the state owns stuff. Other currents consider workers in a given company owning that company, and the state remains separate (this is similar to a co-op economy).

There are more options, of course, depending on which groups own which means of production, and how the power is divided (I.e., district level, sector level etc.).

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I smell bullshit

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sooo did he steal that from mafia or did mafia adopt the idea afterwards?