POLL: As an Atheist, What Do You View as Being the Most Rational Political Outlook?

[Anomalocaris]

I really should stop using the word "coporatism", though in Libertarian circles it is widely used as a synonym for the actual technical term "corporatocracy". So I define it like Wikipedia defines it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy

How is corporatocracy different from fascism? I thought the definition of fascism was an autocratic government where corporate and government interests are merged and the rank and file are kept in line through fear.

I think terms should be used accurately. Facism is not merely any non-communist, non-monarchist autocratic police state. It is a specific form of right wing, popularist, nationalist dictatorship.

The practical difference between corporatocracy and facscism is in established fascism, it is the autocratic government, often sponsored by and promoting a popularist ideology, that is by far the dominant constituent in the corporate government relationship. One might indeed argue that in practical menifestations of fascism in Italy and Germany, corporate interests are not suppressed outright only because fascism tend to desire a distinction from communism more or less for the sake of distinction than any real fundamental principle.

Were it not for the contemporary existence of communism, I have no doubt Nazis and fascist would both have gradually suppressed the captialist coorporations and replaced them with state owned and run enterprise broadly similar to what the communists actually implemented.