Corporatism as an Economic Doctrine

[The Man]

Fascists claim they support a 'Corporatist' economic doctrine. What is Corporatism in economic theory?

[agnixie]

It's relatively fluid. The Swiss and italian corporatists seem to have been relatively interested in a return to what was, essentially, the "little workshop of the patriarchal master". There was a certain caste element which you find with the swiss and d'Annunzio which is not necessarily present in nazism or the rest of the fascisms I've seen.

It's a bit fuzzy at times >.>

[IndependentCitizen]

Profit is private and individual, and loss is public and social....?

[Revolutionair]

Capitalism with a different name, it might be a bit more authoritarian than normal capitalism though.

Corporatism comes from the Latin Corpus, which means body. Corporatists see society as a body, which each part of the body doing their thing. If you are born into a worker family you should just work and NOT question your class-based society, according to the corporatists. There is no room for freedom of speech or activism inside of a corporatist society.

[Lobotomy]

On the Wikipedia page for syndicalism it says "It is a form of economic corporatism that advocates interest aggregation of multiple non-competitive categorised units to negotiate and manage an economy" (bold added). Is that just Wikipedia being biased, or am I missing something?

[bailey_187]

Each class has its own specific function, all working to the benefit of the nation. In theory, the capitalist does not try and get as much profit as possible, but to ensure that the nation is being served to its fullest, while the worker isnt supposed to look out for its interests in higher wages etc, but rather the interests of the whole nation. IIRC.