[lbo-talk] peace-keeping, was Re: NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a DebtCrisis

John Gulick john_gulick at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 19 09:08:28 PST 2010


martin sez:

wiki says, "Corporatism is often used as a pejorative against business

corporation-dominated politics..."

JG:

Yes, quite some time ago, provincial and politically illiterate U.S. "leftists" (of a Naderist stripe, mostly) believed they coined the term "corporatism" to describe a big capital-dominated polity -- having no clue that the term had a long-existing and wholly other meaning on the European continent. Although of course woolly-minded American populists would find state-brokered capital-labor "peak bargaining" to be deeply suspect, too...

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