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'''"Capitalist Socialism"''' names the Infrared concept that actually-existing Western capitalism has already absorbed socialism's forms — planning, welfare, corporate bureaucracy — while retaining capitalist command: socialism '''for the rich''', administered capitalism for everyone else.
'''Capitalist socialism''' refers to a planned economy whose planning is captured by financial monopolists, such as the existing American economy.


== Manifestations ==
It is also known as '''corporate socialism''', '''bourgeois socialism''' (a mode of production), not to be confused with the [[bourgeois-socialist ideology]] described by Marx in the Communist Manifesto.
* Corporate welfare: bailouts (2008), subsidies, monopoly procurement (Pentagon), central-bank backstops — full state support of capital with none of its risks.
* The managerial corporation: internal planning at Amazon/Walmart scale exceeding many national economies — Engels' trusts realized.
* Public-private "stakeholder" governance: ESG, public-private partnerships — the fusion of state and monopoly presented as post-ideological administration.
* Welfare as control: means-tested provision disciplining the poor rather than empowering them.


== The point ==
==From the streams==
Against libertarians who call this "socialism" to discredit it, and liberals who call it "mixed economy," Infrared insists on the distinction of '''telos''': this is capitalism using socialist forms to preserve capitalist rule. Real socialism means those same socialized productive forces commanded by the people. Hence "[[We already live in socialism]]" the task is not to build planning from scratch but to seize what exists (see [[Corporate Socialism under FDR]], [[New Deal]]).
From [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared-vods/jslqqjasue4/ RESPONDING TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY'S INFRARED BAN] (Nov 2021):
 
> "We have a bloated financial sector, and I want to go farther than even China is right now — I want America's financial sector to be completely eliminated... The financial sector is a form of bourgeois, monopoly '''capitalist socialism'''. The financial sector right now is a form of selling indulgences of the planned economy. We live in a planned economy — but on Wall Street the financial monopolists coordinate with each other to get rich off of this financial planning, and rig the system to their benefit, at the expense of the American people."
 
The economy '''is''' planned — supply chains, monopolies, state coordination ([[We already live in socialism]]). Finance is the toll-booth on top of that planning: "selling indulgences." Hence the radical demand: not regulate finance but '''eliminate''' it — farther than China's mixed model — because finance isn't a sector of production but a parasite stratum on the already-socialized economy ([[Tendency of the rate of profit to fall]]).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[We already live in socialism]]
* [[Corporate Socialism under FDR]]
* [[Anglo Box]]


== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 15:19, 28 August 2026

Capitalist socialism refers to a planned economy whose planning is captured by financial monopolists, such as the existing American economy.

It is also known as corporate socialism, bourgeois socialism (a mode of production), not to be confused with the bourgeois-socialist ideology described by Marx in the Communist Manifesto.

From the streams

From RESPONDING TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY'S INFRARED BAN (Nov 2021):

> "We have a bloated financial sector, and I want to go farther than even China is right now — I want America's financial sector to be completely eliminated... The financial sector is a form of bourgeois, monopoly capitalist socialism. The financial sector right now is a form of selling indulgences of the planned economy. We live in a planned economy — but on Wall Street the financial monopolists coordinate with each other to get rich off of this financial planning, and rig the system to their benefit, at the expense of the American people."

The economy is planned — supply chains, monopolies, state coordination (We already live in socialism). Finance is the toll-booth on top of that planning: "selling indulgences." Hence the radical demand: not regulate finance but eliminate it — farther than China's mixed model — because finance isn't a sector of production but a parasite stratum on the already-socialized economy (Tendency of the rate of profit to fall).

See also

References