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Corporate socialism is when the government gives them our tax dollars to totalize top-down control. That's not liberalism, that's just power. They'll trample "liberalism" to make a dollar.
That's not what socialism is to begin with, that's just the state within capitalism affirming corporate power, which is a part of liberalism. "Liberalism" has always generally been that which affirms capitalism, ideologically, it isn't a moral code.
Using taxes for things isn't socialism, socialism is a mode of production where public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy.
But that's what corporate socialism is
That's one function of it (in context) but that's not the definition. That's not "what it is." Also, these corporations would trample capitalism itself to gain more power.
I'm not talking about socialism, I'm talking about corporate socialism, which is not a form of socialism. It's a term which demonstrates how anti-liberal and anti-meritocratic and even anti-capitalist the top-down government-corporate control network is.
I lost brain cells reading this.