Just a note on corporatism:
Our "democracy" may be warped by corporatism, but it was our democracies
that created corporatism. Under a *liberal* state (whether democratic or
not) the market is the arena of individuals, individuals who may
manipulate government, but who never attain the degree of power that is
weilded by modern corporations. The corporate form (perpetual life,
limited liability, impersonal control, in the end, immunity from political
borders and control) was granted by government. If the corporate form has
gone awry, one alternative to socialist world-government is liberal,
capitalist, particularist government. No government is bound to empower
the corporate form; we've just grown so used to it that when we think of
business, we think of corporations.
Salvatore
Salvatore J. Babones
Sociology Department
Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. expected Spring '98