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The convergence of corporate power and fascist method: the public sphere stripped to its studs, every function sold to private profit, the whole enforced by the cult of dominance and the treatment of opposition as enemy action.
corporatocracy + fascist method — business rule, enforced by fascist means
The philosophical and political timeline of Corpofascism — a tradition of liberty curdled into a doctrine of escape from democracy, traced to the documented present.
The book's argument, traced from its beginning: private corporate power has assumed the functions of government in America before — the company town, the trust, the judiciary's invention of a constitutional right to be free of regulation — and been beaten back by a democratic public that built the antitrust tradition, broke the trusts, and reversed the courts. It has also, separately, curdled: a genuine philosophy of liberty, examined through the specific voices that carried it — Rand, Schmitt, Strauss, Hoppe, Yarvin, Land — thinker by thinker, into a doctrine of escape from democracy, culminating in Peter Thiel's 2009 declaration that freedom and democracy are incompatible. This timeline traces both threads in full: the American root, the European method and the legal blueprint that reopened Lochner's door through the First Amendment, the philosophical genealogy, and their convergence with the documented present — the ideology stated plainly, the arsenal built to implement it, the media acquired rather than answered to, the algorithmic levers, the foreign capital, and the family structure built to carry it all forward. Filter by thread to isolate a single strand, or view them together to watch one architecture assemble itself across a century and a half.
The timeline shows the convergence. The book explains why it converges — corporatocracy enforced by fascist method, from a curdled philosophy of liberty to the documented arsenal of the present. This diagnosis has a theological root: The American Antichrist and the Apotheosis of Self-Interest names the same pattern of inversion two centuries and one register earlier.