Dear Leftist:

The reality of corporate socialism makes no sense to you because you cannot think outside of your Marxist ideological box. You draw on textbook (Marxist) definitions of socialism and capitalism. You believe the pabulum that socialism is the takeover and control of the means of production by the working class. That’s ludicrous and never has and never will be the case.

Did you know that the Bolshevik Revolution was funded by capitalist bankers? No, you didn’t. You believe, following like a puppy after Marx, that socialism is about overthrowing capitalism, when it’s really about destroying the free market and small businesses. The middle class is always the target of destruction for socialists, and never the oligarchy.

As a matter of fact, socialism is a ruling-class idea. You’re utterly clueless about the true nature of socialism. Your cluelessness is exactly why the likes of you have been referred to as "useful idiots."

Socialism is nothing if not the monopolization of the economy. So too is corporate socialism. In the case of state socialism, the state (theoretically) monopolizes the means of production. In the case of corporate socialism, the economy is monopolized by state-favored corporations-- sometimes at the direction of the state as in China, and sometimes in a close, cooperative partnership with the state as is currently the case in the United States.

I say that state socialism is the theoretical state monopolization of production because socialist states can never exist for long without their corporate favorites. This was the case in fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, and, if U.S. corporations are taken into account, in the Soviet Union as well. (Almost all technological innovation in the Soviet Union came from American corporations.)

I cannot argue with people like you, who are so ideologically indoctrinated into what socialism is supposed to be that they cannot grasp what it actually is. My model of corporate socialism makes no sense to you simply because you are incapable of eluding the ideological indoctrination that says "socialism good" versus "capitalism bad," and "socialism equals the ownership and control of production by the working class" versus "capitalism equals the private ownership and control of production."

But the real distinction is not between socialism and capitalism. Rather, the real distinction is between both socialism and corporate monopolization versus the free market. For both socialists and corporate monopolists the free market is the enemy. Since the middle class thrives under a free market, the middle class is the real target of socialist and monopolist destruction.

Instead of following your ideological model and imposing its ill-fitting shroud over reality, why not actually deal with reality itself? Oh, that's right; you can't. Your ideology will not allow it.

Sincerely,

M.R.