![]() The NRA is not a for-profit company, but had no problem amassing political power. There are other ways, beyond gobs and gobs of money, to amass political power, however. ![]() Fear of this is part of the reasoning behind things like anti-trust laws, which break up monopolies so that a corporation cannot fully become a government (dictator, really) in and of itself. In order for Corporatism to arise, you require private interests to be able to amass political power that exceeds the political power of the government. (The hand that giveth, may taketh away.) To my knowledge, Corporatocracy only exists in fiction.Ĭorporatism refers to a state of affairs in which the control of the government is NOT explicit in law, and arises either through skullduggery/conspiracy (commonly the case in fiction), or as an emergent property of political systems.Ĭapitalism isn't entirely unrelated to either, but is not sufficient cause for either (and arguably not even necessary for either, but that seems very in the philosophical weeds). It's a de facto democracy, but de jure monarchy - and as such the king can always change his mind. ![]() A king who defers all of his rulings to a popular referendum is still a king. Democracy (Demos, the people + 'ocracy' = Government by the people), only truly exists where it is codified to be so in law. ocracy is the suffix to indicate an official, legal, and deliberate structure. Definitionally speaking, Corporatism and Corporatocracy are the same thing - it's simply a matter of whether or not the control by private, for-profit interests is explicit in the law.
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