On Feb 19, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
> Corporatism is dead as a doornail. It was a product of a specific
> confluence of forces (political and ideological) in Europe in the
> early 20th century. We might as well worry about an invasion by
> medieval Crusaders.
wiki says -
"Corporatism is often used as a pejorative against business corporation-dominated politics. Though the concept of corporatism does not itself specifically endorse domination of business corporations, a case of business-state collaborative economic corporatism with weak labour unions, does exist in Japan.[9] In terms of economic corporatism, Japan's version differs sharply with European economic corporatism that includes labour unions as an integral part of corporatism."
martin
ps - the medieval crusader is 'born again'.