I rarely watch fj, so I’m not who they’re talking about, but Manufacturing Consent is the first political theory book I properly read. It’s certainly worth a read and clearly still relevant today (but if you know you never will read it, at least read the wikipedia summary). The book can be easily downloaded online for free.
There are chapters in this video labelled “corporatism”, and I think this is one of the few times I’ve seen that poor term used correctly.
The word “corporatism” is so often misunderstood and misused instead of “corporatocracy”, a system where business corporations have strong influence in politics (which is effectively just describing capitalism…).
But corporatism isn’t even referring to these corporations, it’s derived from the word ‘corpus’; body, to refer to a system where economic interest groups like guilds and labour associations, collectively bargain on the basis of their common interests. Notably, it advocates for class collaboration rather than class struggle, an idea which sounds pretty nice in a speech but has repeatedly resulted in domination of labour by either the owning class or the state, and the suffering of the worker class, who has been disempowered by being forced into collaborating at a rigged table. Obviously, when the ruling class is threatened by the worker class, class collaboration such as corporatism is an appealing compromise (trap) for them to support.
While corporatism has a long and varied history, and I don’t mean to oversimplify it, corporatism is especially well-known as a core aspect in Fascist ideology [wikipedia]. It’s no coincidence that the video author is drawing comparisons to Mussolini’s face on the Palazzo Braschi. The fascists said a lot of contradictory, arrogant and garbage things in speeches, but one can’t ignore this quote of ᴉuᴉʅossnW in the book The Doctrine of Fascism:
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
I rarely watch fj, so I’m not who they’re talking about, but Manufacturing Consent is the first political theory book I properly read. It’s certainly worth a read and clearly still relevant today (but if you know you never will read it, at least read the wikipedia summary). The book can be easily downloaded online for free.
Reminder for the newer crowd: “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
There are chapters in this video labelled “corporatism”, and I think this is one of the few times I’ve seen that poor term used correctly.
The word “corporatism” is so often misunderstood and misused instead of “corporatocracy”, a system where business corporations have strong influence in politics (which is effectively just describing capitalism…).
But corporatism isn’t even referring to these corporations, it’s derived from the word ‘corpus’; body, to refer to a system where economic interest groups like guilds and labour associations, collectively bargain on the basis of their common interests. Notably, it advocates for class collaboration rather than class struggle, an idea which sounds pretty nice in a speech but has repeatedly resulted in domination of labour by either the owning class or the state, and the suffering of the worker class, who has been disempowered by being forced into collaborating at a rigged table. Obviously, when the ruling class is threatened by the worker class, class collaboration such as corporatism is an appealing compromise (trap) for them to support.
While corporatism has a long and varied history, and I don’t mean to oversimplify it, corporatism is especially well-known as a core aspect in Fascist ideology [wikipedia]. It’s no coincidence that the video author is drawing comparisons to Mussolini’s face on the Palazzo Braschi. The fascists said a lot of contradictory, arrogant and garbage things in speeches, but one can’t ignore this quote of ᴉuᴉʅossnW in the book The Doctrine of Fascism:
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”