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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:32 pm
by flip
moderate corporatist=\"henchman\" :P

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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:22 pm
by null0010
flip wrote:moderate corporatist="henchman" :P
Yes, to some degree. (I say "to some degree" because obviously big business paid for significant portions of his campaign, yet he's at least trying to do something, however small, to curtail their influence. This, to me, suggests that he doesn't like being bought and paid for. Or, at least, that he doesn't like appearing to be bought and paid for. I can hope, mm?)

But you can't be a corporatist and a socialist at the same time, unless the corporations in question are crazy and like to be regulated.

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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 7:52 am
by Spidey
null0010 wrote:But you can't be a corporatist and a socialist at the same time, unless the corporations in question are crazy and like to be regulated.
Why not?

Can you say…bailout & state owned.

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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:09 pm
by null0010
Spidey wrote:
null0010 wrote:But you can't be a corporatist and a socialist at the same time, unless the corporations in question are crazy and like to be regulated.
Why not?

Can you say…bailout & state owned.
Because it gets in the way of profit?

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 4:28 pm
by Spidey
Oh I see, by “corporatist” you meant evil greedy bastid. Not…

cor·po·rat·ism [káwrpərə tìzzəm, káwrprə tìzzəm]
or cor·po·ra·tiv·ism [káwrpərətiv ìzzəm, káwrprətiv ìzzəm]
n
running of state by large organizations: a system of running a state using the power of organizations such as businesses and labor unions that act, or claim to act, for large numbers of people

-cor·po·ra·tist, , adj n

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:48 pm
by null0010
I was unaware of those definitions. No, the way I meant corporatist is someone who supports large corporations, in the business sense, culminating in a government ruled by, just as an example, oil companies, or Brawndo.