Concept Of Corporate State

Question 1

Based on many…

Answer 1

Different and unrelated strands of political and economic thinking

Question 2

Incorporated the traditions of what old concept?

Answer 2

Medieval catholic guilds in which men and their masters cooperated.

This reducing class conflict

Question 3

What encyclical was released in 1891?

Answer 3

De Rerum Novarum

By Pope Leo XIII

Question 4

What did De Rerum Novarum expound?

Answer 4

• means of eliminating class conflict through cooperation
• offered a catholic alternative to socialism
• dealt with the working conditions of WCs

Question 5

Who did corporatism appeal to?

Answer 5

• catholics
• syndicalists
• party members

Question 6

Whose syndicalist ideas were incorporated in corporatism?

Answer 6

The French philosopher, Sorel

His ideas aimed at securing worker controlled industries

Question 7

Why did corporatism appeal to syndicalist Bottai and Rossoni?

Answer 7

Wanted to prepare Italians for “the life of tomorrow” that would create a new social order that would last for centuries to come

Question 8

What did the members of the PNF see Corporatism as a vehicle for?

Answer 8

Bianchi and Rossoni= regarded it as a way of winning the popular support of the WCs

Farinacci and others= saw it as a means of bringing the workers directly under the control of the party

Question 9

What was the basic aim of corporatism?

Answer 9

To achieve the political and economic integration of Italy under fascist leadership

Question 10

How was BM going to go about achieving this basic aim?

Answer 10

Set up syndicates of workers and employers organised and coordinated by the govt

Question 11

What was each syndicate to represent?

Answer 11

A particular trade, industry or profession

Question 12

What did BM hope his plan would achieve?

Answer 12

1) eliminate strike action
2) bring about industrial peace
3) bring an end to class warfare

D’Annunzio had adopted these ideas with his occupation of Fiume

Question 13

What went hand in hand with the introduction of syndicates?

Answer 13

A programme of public works financed by deficit spending

Question 14

What was Mussolini’s long term intention with corporatism?

Answer 14

To create a sound economy capable of supporting BM’s plans for military aggression and his colonial ambitions

Question 15

The nine key steps: stage 1- weakening the TUs

Answer 15

1) 1925 Palazzo Vidoni Pact
2) 1926 Rocco Law
3) July 1926, Ministry of Corporations
4) 1927- CGL and CIL dissolve themselves as powerless

Question 16

The nine key steps: stage 2- the creation of a vast CS structure

Answer 16

6) 1927 Charter of Labour
7) March 1930, National Council of Corporations
8) 1934, The Law on the Formation and Functions of Corporations
9) 1939, parlt replaced by Chamber of Fasces and Corporations

Question 17

The ingredients of Corporativism?

Answer 17

1) older ideas of economic cooperation (CC and medieval guilds)
2) BM looking for an idea to buttress his regime, win international respect and provide office jobs for supporters
3) employers and party members seeing as a means to control workers and safeguard their interests
4) productivist ideas= combining workers and employers in corporations in order to increase national production
5) syndicalism

Question 18

Corporativism was about reducing…

Answer 18

Govt involvement- hoped Corporations would become self governing