Prettify the face of imperialism with the costumes of social justice
The phrase &quot;corporatist class&quot; is a pretty ludicrous confusion between the ideas of &quot;corporations,&quot; entities with significant power, and their employees (or as Marx would call them, the &quot;working class&quot;), with much less significant power.<p>The one example given here as an exception - Coinbase - is pretty clearly explained to be the desires of the CEO outweighing the desires of the employees, to the extent of offering disagreeing employees a severance package.<p>If you&#x27;ve worked at a large corporation the pattern here is pretty easy to explain: individual employees, who are lower class than the owners and possess less power in society, are generally further to the left than the owners. So far, this is unsurprising. If the owners are indifferent (or even mildly sympathetic) to a cause, and the workers care, they&#x27;ll permit it: this is how you get rainbow flags and social media posts. If they are actively opposed, you might get a public fight like Google responding to the walkouts, but more commonly the owners make it tacitly clear that the workers forfeit their job if the cause is mentioned, and so the workers don&#x27;t even try.<p>To spin this as <i>the corporations themselves</i> pushing such-and-such cause - to equate the agency of choosing the colored lights outside your building with the agency of choosing the company&#x27;s fundamental mission - is to completely fail to grasp the distinction between owner and worker.