Sur la circulation du modèle corporatif fasciste dans le monde : agents, réseaux, effets

Abstract

Recent historiography on the transnational dimension of fascism has attributed a role of primary importance to the circulation of the corporatist model that Mussolini’s regime began to construct from the mid-1920s onwards. It has been shown that, from that time onwards, many intellectuals and politicians from different parts of the world, not only from the far right but also from various ideological backgrounds, began to take a close look at the fascist corporate laboratory, in which an unprecedented system of interest representation and regulation of labour relations, of a state and authoritarian type, was being created. Fascist Italy thus became the point of reference for the ongoing debate on corporatism as a possible solution to some crucial issues of modern mass society: the workers’ union organisation and class conflict; economic development and the technocratic management of the production system; the search for a ‘third way’ between liberal democracy and communist revolution.This article examines how fascist corporatism was presented as an exemplary case on a global scale, intended to influence both the political, legal and economic debate and similar legislative experiments in other regimes. In particular, we will focus on the main channels through which the Italian model was disseminated (fascist propaganda abroad, academic networks, political circuits) and the effects of this transnational circulation of fascist ideology.

Keywords

• intellectuals
• fascism
• ideology
• corporatism
• propaganda