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You were only downvoted because your opinion is stupid.
Just playing. If even the slightest limit on corporatism is socialism, then yeah, socialism becomes a necessity.
Corporatism is socialism.
Think about a monopoly. One super-organization (likely international and so somewhat exempt from any actual government) sets the prices for an entire sector of goods and services. If you work for them, your skills are specialized to their field and they decide what you do; you can follow orders or you can quit and starve. It's functionally equivalent to state control of the economy.
Socialism (on either side) is a country full of monopolies, directed by the government.
Now look at reality. Governments don't limit corporations, they're subsidized by the government. The only way that the government was able to seize funds from protestors (which they argued would require the as-yet-unpassed Emergencies Act to do) was because the payment processors and banks agreed to do it, outside of any legal action.