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BreadPanes 58: "Corporatism, Not Capitalism" (lemmy.ml)

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reminder that the 100 million number comes from the editor's introduction to the Black Book of Communism, who "was 'hunting' for the highest possible number of victims", and whose introduction was disavowed by three of the other authors.

Three of the book's main contributors (Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, and Nicolas Werth) publicly disassociated themselves from Courtois' statements in the introduction and criticized his editorial conduct. Margolin and Werth felt that Courtois was "obsessed" with arriving at a total of 100 million killed, which resulted in "sloppy and biased scholarship", faulted him for exaggerating death tolls in specific countries, and rejected the comparison between Communism and Nazism. [citations in the Wikipedia article]

Also, a side note: The term they're looking for is "corporatocracy" or "corporate capitalism", or sometimes you'll hear "crony capitalism" (as if these are distortions of capitalism and not inherent trends!). Corporatism is a whole other thing, a class-collaborationist ideology/system based on collective bargaining of groups. It has its own issues, but it's a separate concept.

But the word "corporatism" is so misused that it's hardly worth calling wrong anymore...