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corporatism is the idea that there is a natural division of labor---it derives from the idea of the division of labor in ephesians i think---it is totally opposed to the idea of trade unions, which from a corporatist viewpoint would be abstract/horizontal and therefore bad bad bad---it is a reactionary corruption of older forms of trade organization--to the extent that contemporary conservatism opposes unions, opposes the idea that working people should mobilize to represent their interests against capital--and to the extent that the right uses a moralizing, atomizing view of the social to impose what amounts to a vision of a natural division of labour--in this case not stated as such, but rather through the reduction of poverty, for example, to matters of "character"--then the americans are already well on the way to this kind of space.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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