Corporations are very happy under a Socialist Third Way / Progressive / Market Socialism / Fascist / “Government regulated Coopetition” (whatever you name you like to apply to the same beast) system. They are not very happy with wide open competitive markets. See all of Europe for an example of “Managed Markets” (yet another name…) The French are masters of this technique, and the Germans not far behind. The Japanese innovated the Keiretsu as a way to limit competition to manageable chunks with government supervision. https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/03/1 ... ment-14483
This is an area in which I have only become recently interested. Liberals have been going on about "corporations" for as long as I can remember, and I routinely dismiss their blather as so much noise.
But this collusion between government and industry is something different. This is actually a case in which "corporations" indeed appear to be a problem, and even a deadly threat. Eisenhower warned about the "Military Industrial Complex", but I have only in the last couple of years came to realize there is really an "Everything Industrial complex."
I have also recently been contemplating that the Media is liberal, precisely because it's owners want it to be, because they are the financial beneficiaries of Liberalism induced government policies and spending.
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
— Lord Melbourne —
I see Communism, which is another name for Corporatism, as a front running of opposition by the very people it opposes. There's a book called "Pages of Socialist History" that makes for an interesting online read. One character whose name pops up is Maltman Barry, a Communist who ran for office as a Conservative.
