Daily Caller has published a noteworthy article by @radicalbenjamin on the subject of Corporatism. I'd like to comment on it, but I'm consciously directing my comments at Catholics, especially those who might have noted my own tweets on the same

The connection of Corporatism to Catholic Social Teaching (CST) is not lost on Roberts; in fact, he makes explicit mention of Leo XIII's Rerum novarum. What he does not mention is the crucial difference between Chinese Corporatism and the Christian Corporatism of CST.

One side of that crucial difference is summarized in the following highlighted passage. It is at this point that careful readers should have noted that what Roberts is describing is State Corporatism, or the Corporate State, and not Societal Corporatism, or the Corporate Society.

The difference between the Corporate State and Corporate Society is something I've discussed before, most recently by referring to Fr. Mort's "Christian Corporatism," which contrasts the State Corporatism of Fascist Italy with the Societal Corporatism of CST.

Note that the distinction between the Corporate State and Corporate Society is not reserved to proponents of Catholic Social Teaching. Unger and Chan, cited by Roberts, make the same distinction in their 2015 paper "State corporatism and business associations in China."