A radical corporatist ‘gremialista’ movement emerged at Chile’s Catholic University

Evidence

At the same time, another radical right-wing movement emerged at the Catholic University. The so-called gremialista movement (“guildism”) became a gathering point for teachers and students, who claimed to rescue the university and society as a whole from the “Christian-Marxist clutch” (Arriagada 1998, 76ff.). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1554

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Introduces the term gremialismo/guildism and its stated mission, needed terminology for the chapter.
  • XREF: connects to: Corporatist gremialismo served as the intellectual-recruitment base for Chile’s coup — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1555; Chilean corporatist thinkers like Guzmán converged with neoliberalism on antistatism and subsidiarity — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1567; Chilean neoliberalism developed in distinguishable stages each with distinct theory. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1613

Broader Connections