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Corporatism as State Capitalism

By Pyotr Malatesta

If corporatism is statist capitalism, then the current distribution of political entitlements (private property) that developed under statist capitalism is part and parcel of the statist system.

If the current system is invalid, then the current distribution of political entitlements that developed due to that system is invalid.

If cappies do not advocate for a complete abolishment of the current distribution of political entitlements, then this logically implies that they see the current distribution of political entitlements as valid, which implies that the current system under which the distribution of political entitlements has developed was valid; if the means bring about valid ends, then the ends justify the means.

The cappie stance is inconsistent if it fails to call for the complete abolition of the current distribution of political entitlements because doing so implicitly validates the statist system that cappies claims they seeks to dismantle.

This logical inconsistency undermines the cappie critique of the state and suggests a contradiction in their advocacy for a truly free market. To maintain coherence, cappie must reject the current distribution of political entitlements of private along with the statist capitalism system that created them.