Corpofascism: How Corporate Power Learned To Rule Like A Fascist State

A president's family grows richer by the billions while in office. A vice president was installed by a single donor's fifteen million dollars.

A Supreme Court justice wrote the legal argument for unlimited corporate political spending seven years after a confidential memo he authored called the judiciary business's “most important instrument” for change — then joined the Court that made his own plan law. These are not isolated stories.

They are a pattern, and the pattern has a name: corpofascism — corporatocracy enforced by fascist method. Christopher E.

Etter traces it from the company towns and trust-busting fights of the Gilded Age, through Mussolini's actual corporate state, through a documented present that reaches directly into this administration's own courtrooms and confirmation hearings: a vice president's theology tested against his own conduct and found wanting by his own bishops; the architect of a deportation machine measured, point by point, against the Gospels his movement claims as authority; the President's own former defense attorney, now the nation's chief law-enforcement officer, unable to explain a convicted trafficker's transfer to a cushier prison; and the decades-old claim that guns exist to resist tyranny, tested by an actual attempt at tyranny and found to mean something else entirely.

Corpofascism does not stop at documentation.

It follows the money into Silicon Valley's most influential venture fund and the surveillance-and-weapons arsenal it has built; it rebuts, point by point and on its own scriptural ground, a tech billionaire's viral theology of the Antichrist; it names the intellectual movement that has stated the program plainly, in print, under its own name; and it documents the family structure and the donor network built to carry the whole arrangement past the lifetime of any single officeholder.

And then it goes further than any single administration. Using neuroscience unavailable to the philosophy's own founders, the book sho