Communism is the control of the means of production by the state. Is there a name for a governmental type where the corporate bodies that control production also control the state?
Corporatism, it’s hard to find many large scale national examples.
The basic theory is legislative and other critical powers are given to corporations. Now the thing is the original usage of the term doesn’t mean business corporations in the modern sense, but uses a stricter definition of corporation to just mean “a group of people.” For example trade unions and other such groups were big in certain corporatist locales.
In Fascist Italy people were arranged into 22 corporations that ostensibly controlled the government.
There’s also a fictional version of “corporate government” that is ran like a publicly traded company.
Citizens buy shares in the company, giving them the right to vote on government decisions, and obviously how many shares you own determines how much you control. Individual government departments are ran like a business, and must create their own profit, so unprofitable departments go bankrupt and whatever services they represent fold up as well.
Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but…
plutarchy, government by the rich
robber barony (a term I sort of just made up)
Plutocracies tend to be synonymous with oligarchies. Many Italian city-states were plutocracies controlled by oligarchies of the wealthy.
“Robber barony” is probably more akin to another definition of corporatism different from the one I mentioned above.
Aside from the corporatism seen in Fascist Italy some people label the strong influence that corporations have on government to be “corporatism.”
“We’re taking Detroit private.”
Are you sure you’re talking of “Communism”? Or, “communism”? Isn’t communism an economic system where the members of the society all contribute to society and do what is necessary for the betterment of society without a need for personal gain? There is basically no need for government, like a Kibbutz in Israel which is entirely self-suffcient (barring the need for defense). Hence, that is why “community” is the root word of communism.
OTOH, Communism with a “C” is when government controls per the OP. At least, that is how it was taught to me.
- Jinx