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> Corporatocracy.... I think it's usually referred to as "corporatism," but, yes. Specifically, I think our current form of government in the US is https://en.

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > I think it's usually referred to as "corporatism" No, corporatism is a completely different thing; it comes from the same root (“corpora” = “body”) as does “corporation”, but it doesn't come from or refer to corporations but rather to the whole of society with institutions in different domains being a singular whole body working together. It was a pretty big idea on Catholic social/political theory for a few centuries, before getting radically reworked into a central part of the basis for Italian Fascism. Rule by the capitalist class through the entities creates by the State to advance the interests of capital (of which corporations are the foremost) is called “capitalism”, a name coined for that system by it's socialist critics who were quite concerned by what it did to everyone else.