#corporatism

No wonder our substrate is backing out of a confidence vote

SHOCK and awe, this is not

This is going to be my main space for writing out the neo-corporate actualist framework as it actually exists in my head, not just in polemics and fragments online.

I’m an advocate of neo-corporate actualism and director of the 'pan-european national corporatist alliance' (penca), but this blog is personal: theory-in-progress, notes, critiques, and occasional organisational updates. Expect:

Drafts and refinements of core concepts (state, corporation, nation, actual idealism)

Historical readings (italian revisionist fascism, national socialism, soviet systems) through a neo-corporate actualist lens

Policy sketches and institutional designs

Occasional penca-related material, always with my own commentary

If you’re here for clean, pre-packaged ideology, you’ll be disappointed.

Ground rules for this space:

Engagement is welcome; bad faith and drive-by trolling will be ignored or blocked.

I’m not trying to be palatable; I am trying to be coherent.

Views expressed here are my own, even when discussing penca.

Tags to follow: #neo-corporate actualism, #penca, #actual idealism, #corporatism, #political theory.

The floodlights bleed across the concrete floor, A synthetic sun to blind the working poor, Where millions trade their scarce and scraping days For ninety minutes in a neon haze. They buy the corporate shroud with grocery coins, To cheer the gilded god that never joins Their quiet, muted world of unpaid bills, Of cold mornings, and grinding daily mills.

They scream of conquests that were never theirs, With blind, hysterical, and frantic prayers, Erasing sixty years of ancient grief— A graveyard built on desperate belief. They worship icons running on decay, Whose heavy limbs collapse upon the clay, Yet swear a two-nil victory is near, Drowning their logic in a pint of beer.

The whistle cuts the humid, heavy air. The script fulfils itself. The stage is bare. The false messiahs stumble, spent and done, Beneath the fury of a foreign sun. A brief and bitter rage infects the crowd, They curse the referee, profane and loud, Then sweep the bloody, bitter truths away, And wipe the memory of yesterday.

The gears reset. The circus starts anew. The hollow voices drift, with naught to do, While quiet, lonely rooms hold those who wake, Who refuse the loop, and actively create.

Despite regularly denouncing the rising socialist menace, President Trump has been pursuing a policy arguably just as, if not more, dangerous to liberty and prosperity as anything proposed by Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders: using government funds to purchase partial ownership of private companies.

The Trump administration has obtained ownership interests of approximately 27 billion dollars in 30 companies since January of 2025. While President Trump and his defenders claim making these "investments" will benefit the American people, the truth is this policy will harm most Americans. The policy distorts the capital markets by incentivizing investors to support these companies because the investors believe government's ownership interest creates a de facto government guarantee of a stock's value....

When investors allocate their resources to companies because government is supporting those companies, capital is deprived to businesses that can thrive by pleasing consumers instead of politicians. This reduces economic growth, harming consumers and workers. It also incentivizes other businesses to seek government investment instead of developing ways to better serve consumers.

Government "investment" in private companies means government control... This will have negative effects on the companies and the entire economy.

Given how many Republicans have been critical of the rise of an openly socialist wing of the Democratic party, it would be reasonable to expect congressional Republicans to push back against President Trump's use of taxpayer funds to take ownership interests in private companies. However, not only are most Republicans not speaking out against this policy, but Senate Republicans have included a provision in the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizing this policy. ...

History shows that new infringements on liberty often start as limited measures presented as supporting national security and then expand over time. Any Republicans who vote for an NDAA with this provision are endorsing the principle of government funding, and control, of private businesses....

President Trump's policy of using government funds to invest in private companies in exchange for partial government ownership of the companies is not pure socialism. Instead, it is corporatism. Corporatism is where power remains nominally in private hands but the government gains significant control.