ABSTRACT
This chapter articulates a definition of current circumstances as neofeudal corporatism and connects that definition to the global spread of Committee on Public Information (CPI) mass rhetorical techniques. The first thing to note about corporatism is that it is opposite of what is called "free trade" in which businesses participate in open competition and live or die on their success in "the market". Whitman notes that while corporatism is notoriously difficult to define, all definitions 'involve the delegation of what most lawyers think of as state powers to private organizations'. Woodrow Wilson announced neofeudal corporatism in 1919. Neofeudal corporatism depends on perpetual state of warfare. Thus, it is characterised not by 'independent enterprise operating in market-directed economy' as with prevailing descriptions of free market capitalism, but by corporations dependent on guaranteed loans and special tax amortization programs to encourage plant expansion in defense-related industries. The comitatus was the core of feudal political system and is also paradigm of today's corporatism.
