• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    25 天前

    “Corporate socialism” does not exist. Corporations push liberalism as a part of cultural hegemony, as does the state. Capital does not care about anything but profit, but cultural hegemony is the means to protect property relations.

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      Corporate socialism is when the government gives them our tax dollars to totalize top-down control. That’s not liberalism, that’s just power. They’ll trample “liberalism” to make a dollar.

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        25 天前

        That’s not what socialism is to begin with, that’s just the state within capitalism affirming corporate power, which is a part of liberalism. “Liberalism” has always generally been that which affirms capitalism, ideologically, it isn’t a moral code.

        Using taxes for things isn’t socialism, socialism is a mode of production where public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy.

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          That’s not what socialism is to begin with

          But that’s what corporate socialism is

          “Liberalism” has always generally been that which affirms capitalism

          That’s one function of it (in context) but that’s not the definition. That’s not “what it is.” Also, these corporations would trample capitalism itself to gain more power.

          socialism is a mode of production where public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy.

          I’m not talking about socialism, I’m talking about corporate socialism, which is not a form of socialism. It’s a term which demonstrates how anti-liberal and anti-meritocratic and even anti-capitalist the top-down government-corporate control network is.