[lbo-talk] Class Divide in Iran (was Once Upon a time)

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at videotron.ca
Fri Aug 25 12:51:25 PDT 2006


Yoshie writes:


> The New Deal coalition, especially in war years, was more corporatist
> (e.g., no strike pledge, wages and price controls, etc.) than liberal,
> btw.
============================== Not to belabour the point, but corporatist themes were consistent, not incompatible, with 20th century liberalism's shift towards government intervention in the economy. John Kenneth Galbraith was the quintessential modern liberal seeking to bring together the state, the corporations, and the unions in the service of highly concentrated capitalism. In Canada, in the 70s and early 80s, the right wing of the NDP and the trade union movement and the left wing of the Liberal Party, which were virtually indistinguishable from each other, were the foremost exponents of "tripartism" - the term corporatism was associated with fascist coercion - while opposition to it came, of course, from conservatives deriving their inspiration from "classical liberals" who favoured unregulated markets.



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