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>Therefore the goal should be to limit the power that institutions can have over an individual, thus minimizing the effects of said potential for corruption
Which just results in the formation of exploitative power structures outside the bounds of traditional institutions, which people will then want to use institutions to curtail, producing the same result. The solution to this is to build the institutions correctly in the first place, namely in such a way that they anticipate the ways in which they can be abused to enable corruption. Capitalism and communism both fail in this because they rely upon idealizations of human nature: the former presumes that homo economicus will rationally order things through self-interest via market competition (which he doesn't, because people are not autistic bean counting robots, so it inevitably just devolves into elitist oligarchy), while the latter presumes that the New Soviet Man will act a selfless component of a eusocial bug hive (which he doesn't, because everyone quickly figures out that the unfeeling bureaucracy will gladly just suck him dry and discard him). The solution is, rather, national socialism (or more specifically, an ethnocentric mixed economy): self-interest can find expression in private enterprise, while selflessness can find expression in service to the ethnos, with the former being regulated by the constitutional injunction to not harm the ethnos via economic exploitation and the latter actually being bought into by the population because they organically identify with the collective, which leverages humans AS THEY ARE (tribal) rather than what one might wish them to be