It seems to me, that not ideology but dogma has been described, the two are not necessarily the same. I wasn't aware, that "corporationism" is an ideology. I think it is a form of self-defence for capitalism, incorporating some necessary seeds such as integration and planning for future analysis, but being inefficient due to their anti-democratic and burocratic nature, I agree. Eva > > > Ideologies provide each their own single, simple and inevitable answer > to questions that are intrinsically complex and characterized by > uncertainty. With ideological certainty available we -- the whole > civilization -- fall into a state of zombie-like (my word) > unconsciousness, a state in which the exercise of "common sense, > ethics, intuition, memory and, finally, reason" fail. > > Dominant idologies for the last 120 years or so have been dominated by > corporatism. An ideology of, or derived from, corporatism has no > place for a conscious individual participant in the democratic process > and no venue for the "obligation to act as a citizen." It has > room only for putatively rational management and negotiation between > competing "interests". > > Saul begins his own summary, near the end of chapter 5: > > What I have described in these five chapters is a civilization -- > our civilization -- locked in the grip of an ideology -- > corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the > legitimacy of the individual as the citizen in a democracy. The > particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of > self-interest and a denial of the public good. The quality that > corporatism claims as its own is rationality. The practical > effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the > areas that matter and non-conformism in the areas that don't. > > - Mike > --- > > Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/mspencer/home.html > --- >
