I'm not certain what you could infer from anything I write here that would lead you to believe I think the Nordic countries are socialist, but I emphatically believe they are capitalist democracies.
>They have more elements of socialism than does the US is all I mean.
See the article I linked to. Several of these countries are more free than we are based on a metric developed to quantify such things.
>Your "corporatists" are to capitalism what Stalin is to "communism." Neither fits the ideological ideal, but both are nonetheless the result of the ideology. Capitalism produces your "corporatists." That's why capitalism needs to be regulated, as the Nordic countries do better than the United States.
I think you have it backwards. Corporatism flows from over regulation. Make it tougher to open a business via laws and rules and regulations, etc. and you end up rewarding the bigger player at the expense of the smaller player or the new idea in the marketplace. Walmart doesn't care if taxes are higher or if the entryway to open a new retail outlet is tougher due to regulations. They have the attorneys and lobbyists to make sure their turf is protected. If a new social media company gains traction, Fakebook or Twaddle will cough up a billion dollars and buy it out or collude with each other to keep it from growing. Look at what happened with Parler last year. Capitalism is an antidote to corporatism.
Good, new ideas EVENTUALLY win out, but corporatism does everything it can to keep capitalism from flourishing.