Remember how bad things were under Communism? Save for some effete snobs and True Party Believers, no one ever had anything nice to say about life under Communism. Corporatism is no different, as these astute scholars observed almost eighty years ago. Perhaps it’s time to kick Corporatism to the curb to bum spare change with its old buddy Communism?
From "The Modern Corporation and Private Property" by Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means, 1932:
…The only example of a similar subjection of the economic interests of the individual to those of a group which appears to the writers as being at all comparable, is that contained in the communist system. Though the communist ideology differs and the communist application is more drastic, the principle seems similar. As a qualification on what has been known as private property in Anglo-American law, this corporate development represents a far greater approach towards communist modalities than appears anywhere else in our system. It is an odd paradox that a corporate board of directors and a communist committee of commissars should so nearly meet in a common contention. The communist thinks of the community in terms of a state; the corporation director thinks of it in terms of an enterprise; and though this difference between the two may well lead to a radical divergence in results, it still remains true that the corporation director who would subordinate the interests of the individual stockholder to those of the group more nearly resembles the communist in mode of thought than he does the protagonist of private property.