Corporate statism
Corporate State means a State which is largely dominated and ruled by privileged estates.
As a caste system is historically a social model called, in which the population is not ( primarily ) as members of the population in an area: were considered (later a state's population ), but also as members of a class: for example, the nobility, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, the peasantry and the workers. The Ethics affiliation determined the rights that a person had; the rights were established by the prince 's subjects and ausdefiniert within the respective state. The order of estates built in the Middle Ages and was worn by feudalism until the 20th century.
The feudal system is referred to as pre-modern 1776 since the Declaration of Independence of the United States. In this statement for the first time be self-evident truths ("self - evident truths " ) defined as: " that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and that to secure these rights, governments are established among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. "
The next drastic departure from the corporative model was carried out by the French Revolution in 1789, but it took in many countries until the 20th century, enforce social systems without sized structure.
An ideological recourse to pre-modern social formations, in which the idea of a parent after stalls political system was propagated, since the late 19th century arose especially in Catholic politicians and social reformers, which from 1931 on the encyclical Quadragesimo anno of Pope Pius XI. could support. With their anti-liberal thrust of the corporate state idea transformed gradually into a cover for anti-democratic tendencies, especially after the First World War. So called, for example, the Austrian philosopher Othmar Spann in 1929 at the University of Munich authoritarian corporate state as a third way between democracy and Marxism. The fascists of Benito Mussolini's Italy ( there called corporatism ), Francisco Franco's Spain, António de Oliveira Salazar's Portugal and Jozef Tiso's Slovakia related to this model of society, as the Austrian Government Dictatorship ( Austrofascism ) Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg 1933-1938 that the laid claim to build such a corporate state in Austria.
After Arthur Benz is the term corporate state historically a contradiction in terms, since the caste system of modern statehood preceded and was replaced by this. However, he is characterized as a pre-modern form of government.