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Any kind of ventillation or airflow?

Probably will try to. Will also probably be stopped by the courts. We need to purge the judiciary (and I’ll vote for anybody in the presidential primary who promises to do that).

I mostly see it as an attempt to co-opt labor/reform movements by institutionalizing them and, while ostensibly legitimizing them, ultimately setting boundaries that view real material changes as too radical and ends up just supporting the interests of capital in an effort to manufacture the appearance of some kind of social harmony.

The only case I’ve specifically read deeply into is Austria where there’s a rich debate about whether they were “fascist” and what that means and what they were. It was several years ago and I can’t recall any names but in my initial post “austro-fascism” is a research term that’s going to get you right into the debate. Wikipedia is a reasonable place to start—iirc they were called the Fatherland Front?

Beyond that, my encounters have been more through histories that cover these periods and regimes but aren’t necessarily focus on the specific question of corporatism. Priest, Politician, Collaborator looks at Tiso, the puppet in Slovakia. Hugh Thomas’ The Spanish Civil War isn’t “about” corporatism but does discuss the ideological underpinnings of Franco and I just had a similar experience with Lisbon by Neill Lochery looking at Salazar’s corporatist beliefs weighed against the fear of invasion as a small state by its larger, nominal ideological neighbor in Spain.

The early phase of Italian fascism is worth looking into, too. The fascist manifesto was written by some modern artists and Italy remain in some ways weirdly constitutional as is synthesized Mussolini’s politics into and on top of existing political structures.

It has its origins, per the image leading the preview, in medieval guild systems. While this is a broad statement involving putting modern labels om historical insititions, there were explicit historical sources of inspiration for those who articulated modern corporatism, including in two Papal encyclicals, as a way to address labor relations and head off communism/left-wing solutions and create economic accord within a traditionalist/paternalist/Catholic framework.

Corporatism became an explicit ideological component of many fascist (or at least reactionary authoritarian) movements largely attributable to copying Mussolini: it heavily influenced the pre-Anschluss Austria government (“Austro-fascism”), Falangism in Spain, the Estado Novo in Portugal—and other countries where it was less centrally articulated but still an influencing concept under “Clerical-fascism” such as Nazi-controlled Slovakia which was led by a priest who was thrilled to lick Hitler’s boots.

Worth the read and worth looking into more beyond Wikipedia! It’s important to understand the ideological underpinning’s of ones enemies—especially when they’re (marginally) more intellectually articulated than “minorities bad.”