Jakob wrote:Jakob wrote:Corporate power is a synthesis of private and government power.
The function is synthetic. That in name they're still different doesn't matter.
I can see a synthetic reconciliation in the sense that both corporations and government consist of multiple individuals treated as an individual body, but this isn't enough for corporations to be a functional synthesis of the private and the governmental.
This is why I brought up the singular goal of private bodies, whether corporate or not, which is not a goal of public bodies - even though they are not mentioned in any of your statements, and because they were not mentioned by you. Different goals mean their respective functions diverge, but with the caveat that I made that government is held ransom by anything private that could otherwise fund a different government's campaign for power, or relocate to deny tax dollars from the local government in power that is funded via said privates. Given this caveat, government functions have an element of being forced to align with any anything private, whether corporate or individual - but it is only here where any functionality aligns, and in this case it is government aligning with all things private, not just corporations.
But it seems as though you want to focus on the bureaucratic nature necessary to hold together larger bodies, whether governmental, or private corporations. You can argue against the functionality of bureaucracy and its implicit centralisation, but your argument won't be any more against government than private corporations. Is that your position, then? Anti-bureaucracy, whether that's anti-capitalist bureaucracy or anti-government bureaucracy alike (or at least minimal bureaucracy if you accept any need for at least some?)
From your comment about "the basic leftist idea" that "corporatism is not leftist", there seems to be an implication that Leftism is synonymous with bureaucracy - whether public or private. The aim of Leftism isn't bureaucracy, that's an unfortunate side-effect of anything that needs to be big enough to require it, and the aim certainly isn't privatised bureaucracy from corporations. Leftism is just a lack of trust in what you condone as a "small state with little to no power to interfere in the lives of privates" to cater best for wider society, without a body (which does not have the singular goal of private bodies) big enough to keep privates in check.
Jakob wrote:The Corporation happens when the state has lost proportion. It is a symbiosis of public money and private interest that occurs in the swamp of bureaucracy and lobbying.
Corporations have nothing to do with "when the state has lost proportion", there is no public money in a corporation unless there is collusion, only private interest.
Jakob wrote:Yes, government therefore relies on Corporate lifeblood.
Here we agree.
Only when private power is too great, such as to be able to hold government ransom. Not because government necessarily relies on corporate or even non-corporate lifeblood. Taxation of privates, whether corporate or non-corporate, to fund government is only necessary at all because of the sole purpose of privates: to profit. Without that, prices are only set to cover costs, in which case government welfare would function the same as wages, but enough for everyone to get by as wealthily as any workers collectively put in to create said wealth. Pluralise this model to have multiple competing governments and the same function of private competition occurs, only with greater wealth as the reward for everyone and not just the guys with the most control and leverage over the wealth. In practice this would be no different from prohibiting profit in the private sector - government is no more or less shady than anything private if pluralised governments are the size of plural privates: remove profit, include competition, make the same size and private and public are equivalent.
You don't need to tell me that you don't like that idea for whatever indoctrinated reason, the point is that government doesn't rely on corporate or noncorporate lifeblood, corporatism isn't leftist unless you want to commit a fallacy of association that because both corporations and government can be big enough to need bureaucracy, "they are therefore the same" - they are not.