Corporatocracy

This ideology advocates for corporate control or influence of the government. For third-positionist economic system supported by many fascists, see Corporatism.

Corporatocracy
"LOBBYING, SUBSIDIES AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY!"
Basic Information
Aliases	Corporate business Corporate republic Big Businessism Metaverseism McTheocracy Rule of private enterprise BNL British South Africa Company Lemon Socialism Corporatism (erroneously, by Right-Libertarians and leftists) Corpcuck Cronyism Left-Corporatocracy (Some) Reverse Robinhood Copyrightism Monopolycracy Crony Capitalism Supercapitalism Corporate Socialism Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor (by DemSoc & SocDem) Socialism but backwards Libright Monopoly Model Mr. Krabs Thought Literally DMCA Congo Free State Model Shellism Steve Sisolak Thought Nintendoism Disneyism Buffettism Arasaka Coca-Colaism Proto-Fordism
Alignments	Non-Quadrant  Capitalists
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Elitism Plutocracy Propertarianism Authoritarian Capitalism
Influenced	Banana Republicanism Fordism Đổi Mới FreePCB Scamism Islamic Capitalism Leopold II Thought Mediacracy Neocameralism Thaksinism Three Represents Yeltsinism
Ideological Information
Notable Theorists	Americas Warren Delano Jr. (1809-1898) USA Alan Pinkerton (1819-1884) USA Marcus Goldman (1821-1904) Germany/ USA William Walker (1824-1860) USA John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) USA Henry Ford (1863-1947) USA Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888-1969) USA Generoso Pope (1891-1950) Italy/ USA Prescott Bush (1895-1972) USA Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973) Cuba Walt Disney (1901-1966) USA Meyer Lansky (1902-1983) Poland/ USA Roberto Marinho (1904-2003) Brazil Fred Trump (1905-1999) USA Nelson Rockefeller (1910-1979) USA David Rockefeller (1915-2017) USA George Wackenhut (1919-2004) USA George Soros (1930-) Hungary/ USA Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (1930-) Bolivia Warren Buffett (1930-) USA Ted Turner (1938-) USA Carlos Slim (1940-) Mexico Dick Cheney (1941-) USA Michael Bloomberg (1942-) USA John Ashcroft (1942-) USA Thomas W. Beasley (1943-) USA Ronald Lauder (1944-) USA Haim Saban (1944-) Israel/ USA Donald Trump (1946-) USA Sebastián Piñera (1949-) Chile Allen Stanford (1950-) USA Marillyn Hewson (1953-) USA Steve Sisolak (1953-) USA Lloyd Blankfein (1954-) USA Neville Roy Singham (1954-) USA Bill Gates (1955-) USA Mauricio Macri (1959-) Argentina Don Blankenship (1950-) USA David Zaslav (1960-) USA Jordan Belfort (1962-) USA Jeff Bezos (1964-) USA Jimmy Donal Wales (1966-) USA Erik Prince (1969-) USA Elon Musk (1971-) South Africa/ Canada Mark Zuckerberg (1984-) USA Western Europe Edward Colston (1636-1721) UK Judah Mordechai Cohen (1768-1838) Netherlands/ UK Leopold II (1835-1909) Belgium Alfred Hugenberg (1865-1951) Germany Fritz Thyssen (1873-1951) Germany Enrico Mattei (1906-1962) Italy Licio Gelli (1919-2015) Italy Ingvar Kamprad (1926-2018) Sweden Charles Pasqa (1927-2015) France Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1930-) Austria/ Germany Adolf H. Lundin (1932-2006) Sweden Silvio Berlusconi (1936-2023) Italy Klaus Schwab (1938-) Germany Gerhard Schröder (1944-) Germany Carl Bildt (1949-) Sweden Göran Persson (1949-) Sweden Bernard Arnault (1949-) France Richard Branson (1950-) UK Christine Lagarde (1956-) France Jacob Wallenberg (1956-) Sweden David Atkinson (1965-) UK Fabrice Leggeri (1968-) France Post Soviet States/ Eastern Europe Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938-2010) Russia Leonid Kuchma (1938-) Ukraine Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-) Kazakhstan Boris Berezovsky (1946-2013) Russia Andrej Babiš (1954-) Czechia/ Slovakia Anatoly Chubais (1955-) Russia Sergei Mavrodi (1955-2018) Russia Donald Tusk (1957-) Poland Vladimir Potanin (1961-) Russia Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961-2023) Russia Milo Đukanović (1962-) Montenegro Viktor Orban (1963-) Hungary Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963-) Russia Mukhtar Ablyazov (1963-) Kazakhstan Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963-) Ukraine/ Israel/ Cyrpus Mikhail Friedman (1964-) Russia/ Israel Vladislav Surkov (1964-) Russia Dmitry Medvedev (1965-) Russia Lőrinc Mészáros (1966-) Hungary Mikhail Mishustin (1966-) Russia Alexey Nechayev (1966-) Russia Rinat Akhmetov (1966-) Ukraine Mikheil Saakashvili (1967-) Georgia Mateusz Morawiecki (1968-) Poland Marcin Plichta (1984-) Poland Daniel Obajtek Poland Asia-Pacific Keith Murdoch (1885-1952) Australia Naoki Hoshino (1892-1978) Japan Aiichirō Fujiyama (1897-1985) Japan Ryōichi Sasakawa (1899-1995) Japan Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989) Philippines Roberto Benedicto (1917-2000) Philippines Koichi Tsukamoto (1920-1998) Japan Sun Myung Moon (1920-2012) Korea Suharto (1921-2008) Indonesia Yeoh Tiong Lay (1922-2017) Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad (1925-) Malaysia Jiang Zemin (1926-2022) China Zhu Rongji (1928-) China Lo Hsing Han (1930s-2013) Myanmar Rupert Murdoch (1931-) Australia/ USA Kim Woo-choong (1936-2019) South Korea Tung Chee-hwa (1937-) Hong Kong Lee Myung-bak (1941-) South Korea Zhou Yongkang (1942-) China Donald Tsang (1944-) Hong Kong N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946-) India Sondhi Limthongkul (1947-) Thailand Jimmy Lai (1947-) Hong Kong Wang Qishan (1948-) China Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-) Thailand Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949-) Vietnam Terry Gou (1950-) Taiwan Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary (1951-) Malaysia Hun Sen (1952-) Cambodia Cai Xia (1952-) China Lee Hsien Loong (1952-) Singapore Vincent Tan (1952-) Malaysia Najib Razak (1953-) Malaysia CY Leung (1954-) Hong Kong Wang Jianlin (1954-) China Jiang Jiemin (1954-) China Lee Kim Yew (1955-) Malaysia Li Keqiang (1955-) China Wang Yang (1955-) China Gu Kailai (1958-) China Lai Changxing (1958-) China Li Qiang (1959-) China Đinh La Thăng (1960-) Vietnam Nguyễn Đức Kiên (1964-) Vietnam Jack Ma (1964-) China Yingluck Shinawatra (1967-) Thailand Ma Huateng (1971-) China Guo Wengui (1970-) China Xiao Jianhua (1972-) China/ Canada Dian Lee (?-) Malaysia Larry Low Hock Peng (?-) Malaysia Low Taek Jho (1981-) Malaysia Chris Xu (1984-) China MENA Idris of Libya (1890-1983) Libya Hosni Mubarak (1928-2020) Egypt Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936-2019) Tunisia Rafic Hariri (1944-2005) Lebanon Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (1948-2022) UAE Sheikh Mohammed (1949-) UAE Hamad bin Khalifa (1952-2013) Qatar Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954-) Turkey Binali Yıldırım (1955-) Turkey Alaa Mubarak (1960-) Egypt Rami Maklouf (1969-) Syria Africa Ernest Oppenheimer (1880-1957) Germany/ South Africa Errol Musk (1946-) South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa (1952-) South Africa Paul Kagame (1957-) Rwanda
Notable Examples	Congo Free State (1885-1908) India under the rule of British East India Company (1757–1858)
Variations
Schools of Thought	Neo-Slavery Sexocracy Slavery
Regional Variants	Bezosism Chinese Eggman Liberaltarianism Mediacracy Neoliberalism Pink Capitalism Pinkertonism Plutocracy Gamification of work Slavery (accused) Fordism (Real) Anti-Semitism Cultural Nationalism Eugenicism Freemasonry Georgism Industrialism National Capitalism Paleoconservatism (During WWI) Plutocracy Social Capitalism Kolomoyskism Anti-Putinism (initially during Russo-Ukrainian War) Authoritarian Democracy Eco-Nationalism Financialism (Formerly) Green Liberalism Kleptocracy Oligarchy Plutocracy Pro-Détente (Since 2022) Pro-Europeanism Social Authoritarian Capitalism Third Way Authoritarianism Zionism Khodorkovskism Anti-Communism (Contradictory) Anti-Putinism Climate Skepticism Cronyism Mediacracy (Recently) Neoconservatism Neoliberalism Oligarchy Plutocracy Yeltsinism Lemon Socialism Fake Socialism Obamaism Protectionism Regulationist Capitalism MMMism Anti-Financialism Class Dealignment Communitarianism (self-proclaimed) Kleptocracy Machiavellianism Social Capitalism (Sergei Mavrodi, self-proclaimed) Palytsiaism Agrarian Socialism (Early on) Authoritarian Conservatism Authoritarian Liberalism Economic Nationalism Kolomoyskism Liberal Conservatism National Conservatism Populism Russian NPism Communitarianism Fiscal Conservatism Kleptocracy Industrialism Putinism Regionalism South Korea Model/Chaebolism Anti-Japanese Sentiment (Many) Anti-Libertarianism Anti-Communism Authoritarian Democracy Cultural Nationalism Kleptocracy Techno-Capitalism Militarism Pan-Koreanism Patriotism Neoconservatism Presidentialism Tiger Economy Systemic Misogyny Triequism (Self-proclaimed) Two Party System Centralism Demographic Posadism
Character Information
Likes	Money Law and Order Monopolies Lobbying
Dislikes	P**rs Libertarians Unionists
Song	Inspire (Corporate presentation music) FF7 - Shinra Corporation Theme Bezos eu + II Redesign Your Logo Gangnam Style MOUSAIT- Copyright Don't Download This Song Digital Piracy (You Wouldn't Steal A Car) Napalm Death - Instinct Of Survival VersaLife™ Sixteen Tons Feel Good Inc. Silicon Dreams How Bad Can I Be? Zero

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Corporatocracy also called Corpocracy, Crony Capitalism, Monopoly Capitalism, Lemon Socialism, Cronyism, Supercapitalism and Socialism for the Rich is an economic system in which the state intervenes within the economy for the benefit of the profit of a select number for corporations, especially in the context of squashing competition.

History

Corporatocracy-like economic policies could have been said to have started with the process of enclosure in England. The enclosure was a process in England practiced since the 13th century by which the English State took communally owned rural land by force and gave it to private owners. When Mercantilism became popularized, governments began to create monopoly corporations in certain trades and industries. Some of these firms such as the East India Company and Hudson Bay Company became so powerful they effectively ruled over the territory. During the Gilded Age, with the rise of industrial capitalism monopolies and other corporations began to get more influence in the government with corruption being rampant. However, during the Progressive era corruption and the influence of corporations in government declined. Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, many say the United States has been experiencing a constant shift towards Corporatocracy due to more favorable policies given to corporations, corporate influence in government (Lobbying aka legalized bribery), rising income inequality, and the dominance of the workplace by corporations.

Variants

Lemon Socialism

Lemon Socialism emerged as a pejorative term for an economic system based on: a government that offers subsidies to weak, bad or bankrupt companies so that they don't end up and remain in the market.

Supercapitalism

Supercapitalism was a concept created by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, in which the state would intervene in society so that it was fully standardized so that companies could know what customers want and customers could consume infinitely. This variant is comparable to Fordism, the fictional ideology in "Brave New World"

Congo Free State Model

The Congo Free State Model was based on the Congo Free State, a former colony of Leopold II, King of the Belgians . The economy is based on a state that enslaves black population so that the enslaved are distributed to corporations, and slaves who do not obey would be killed or lose their hands. In general, the Congo Free State economy preaches state interference to protect large corporations that enslave Blacks.

Shellism

Shellism, Shell model, or more appropriately, Shell Neo-Imperialism, is based on the Shell PLC (formerly Royal Dutch Shell PLC), a super-major oil giant, and its subjugation of Nigeria. The basis of its beliefs would involve securing hegemony over a country through constant bribery towards its government and national military, controlling and operating the oil via its oil extraction infrastructure and distribution networks, and spreading propaganda to pacify the population and sway public opinion to hide the several atrocities committed there, including the aforementioned corruption and bribery, bribed military operations to suppress anyone there from spreading awareness and fighting for genuine change, and the several thousand oil spills resulting in the poisoning of Nigeria's water supply and environment that were denied responsibility of shell and were instead blamed on terrorists.

Bezosism/Amazonism

Bezosism, Amazonism or Amazonization, is based on the relationship between Jeff Bezos and his company Amazon, with the American government. It is the driest form of Corporatocracy, preaching that the only state interference in the economy is to give subsidies and forgive some deregulation of private companies, among others.

Steve Sisolak thought

Steve Sisolak thought believes that local governments should be run by tech companies. He believes that by letting tech companies do local governance, economic development and advances in technology would accelerate.

Mega Corporatocracy

Mega Corporatocracy is an ideology that wants to one corporation control all aspects of human life, and force everyone to only work and consume. There is only one world government that has a monopoly on everything. An example of Mega Corporatocracy is the BNL from the 2008 Pixar film, Wall-E.

Personality

Corporatocracy as a character cares a hell of a lot about getting the maximum amount of money possible, and unlike certain other people with this trait, corp is very much willing to use organized violence to achieve this goal.

Corp absolutely loves government policies that favor the wealthy to an insane extent, and he is often seen literally worshiping concepts such as Intellectual Property as a deity. Because of his love of these policies, he hates the public domain.

Since he thinks the state must serve powerful business owners, he is one of the few ideologies that openly believes that corporate lobbying is a good thing. This is an idea that even some other capitalist ideologies see as unjust (when consistent).

How to Draw

Flag of Corporatocracy

1. Draw a ball with eyes
2. Fill it with very light cyan
3. In the middle draw a white circle
4. In the Circle draw a Big "C" in the middle, in the same shade of cyan.
5. Vertically through the C, put a line in the same color.

Thou art done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Light Cyan	#76D7C4	118, 215, 196
	White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255

Relationships

Shareholders

• Authoritarian Capitalism - Love you, your conglomerate way more.
• Mercantilism - Merchant republics, high tariffs on competitors, and charter companies are based! In many aspects, you are even better than capitalism, even if some of your beliefs are a bit outdated.
• Absolute Monarchism - King Leopold II was based AF.
• Fordism - Love your Soma product!
• Plutocracy - Thanks for everything dad, I'll make the family company greater than ever.
• Oligarchy - Excellent way of praxis.
• Pink Capitalism - You're my best friend every February and every June.
• Dengism - You were way more based in the past but I suppose we can still do business.
• Neoconservatism - CRUSH THE ENEMIES OF FIAT! Your wars are making me big money as well.
• Kleptocracy - You get me! Sorry that I have to pull out of Russia in order to protect my profits.
• State Liberalism - Your policies are good for PR. The only downside is we can't market to conservatives anymore.
• Neocameralism - A state run like a company is the best idea ever.
• Mediacracy - I give you ad money, and you do some positive PR for me, deal?
• Police Statism - Pinkertons were the best organization to ever exist.
• Capitalist Transhumanism - Companies in Cyberpunk stories are the good guys.
• Liberal Feminism - Roe v. Wade overturned? Don't worry, I'll pay for you to travel out of state for an abortion.
• Idiocracy - Brought to you by Carl's Jr. Also, thanks for that Grubhub ad.
• Anarcho-Capitalism - I am you and you are me. Quit denying it!
• Austrian School - No matter how much you claim to despise me, your laissez-faire system is based because it gives me UNLIMITED POWAR. Oh yeah, I can totally regulate myself. Well, if I feel like it, of course.

Customers

• Monarcho-Capitalism - Why do my sons have to inherit the company when we can live off the shares?
• White Nationalism - You were a useful idiot during the colonial era who justified the Congo Free State and company rule in India, but now you're bad for PR so I will pretend to hate you.
• National Capitalism - You are so close to perfection, but when will you understand that racism and homophobia are both bad for business?
• State Capitalism - We are rather similar, but the state should serve the interests of corporations, not the other way around.
• Protectionism - Removes foreign competitors but prevents my expansion abroad.
• Welfarism - Only good when it's for my business.
• Imperialism - Overall profitable, but you later dismantled the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company.
• Bidenism - No, don't increase the corporate tax! Thanks for your subsidies, though.

Competitors

• Corporatism - WE. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME!!!
• Libertarianism - What do you mean you don't want an economy regulated in favor of large corporations you cuck?!!!
• Civil Libertarianism - I will collect your private information as I please.
• Democratic Socialism - wheeze.mp3
• Anarcho-Communism - Yeah, pretty much my opposite.
• Marxism–Leninism - Yet another commie.
• Georgism - Shut up and let me monopolize land!
• Agorism - Wants to end copyright. There were no original ideas before 1710.
• Piratism - I need to protect my mon... I mean, artists. Also, don’t take my NFTs.
• Bull Moose Progressivism - STOP BUSTING MY TRUSTS!
• Longism - STOP SHARING THE WEALTH!
• Distributism - STOP DOING THOSE TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME!
• Syndicalism - STOP GOING ON STRIKE!
• Left-Wing Populism - STOP PROTESTING!
• Social Democracy - STAY AWAY FROM MY TAX MONEY!
• Illegalism - Stop breaking copyright, stealing my money and products and trying to kill bosses! Time to call the Pinkertons!
• Soulism - HOW did this person get our products freely without paying anything? Stealing? Not likely - our security guards and video cameras never caught this person.
• Christian Socialism -*hissing*
• Almost everyone else - Thinks lobbying is bad!

Further Information

Literature

• The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Wealth Inequality (Buy) (Google Preview) by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles
• People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Read Online) (Google Preview) (Buy) by Jacobin Leigh Philips and Michał Rozworski
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• War is a Racket by Smedley Butler

Articles

• South Korea Is No Country for Young People
• A Look at South Korean Plastic Surgery
• S. Korea's senior citizens suffer high rate of relative poverty: report
• The salt mines, "hell on earth" for the disabled in South Korea
• The islands of abuse: Inside South Korea's slave farms for the disabled

Wikipedia

• Corporatocracy
• Corporate republic
• Crony capitalism
• Lemon socialism
• "Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor"
• Chartered Company
• Corporate welfare
• Supercapitalism
• Banana republic
• Managerial state
• Copyright
• "Too big to fail"
• Amazon company
• The VOC
• East India Company
  • Company rule in India
• Congo Free State
• Business Plot
• Standard Oil
• Steve Sisolak
• United Fruit Company

TVTropes

• One Nation Under Copyright
• Corporate Warfare
• Disney Owns This Trope
• MegaCorp

Videos

• The Banana Republics by Sam O'Nella Academy
• Stossel: Why Some Capitalists are the Worst Enemies of Capitalism by ReasonTV
• Freeloaders: The Wealthy by John Stossel
• Wall-E - BnL Shorts: The History of Buy N Large by Pixar Studios
• The Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation by Tad Lumpkin and Harold Uhl
• The Age Of Trillion Dollar Mega-Corporations by Economics explained
• When The Dutch Ruled The World: The Rise & Fall of the Dutch East India Company by Business Casual
• Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video
• Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video (LONG VERSION)
• The Moment Twitter Ruined Society by Moon
• Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea by Wendover Productions

Games

• Monopoly
• Spinnortality
• Industries of Titan

Gallery

Portraits and Artwork

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