Corporate-statist ideology lets the State claim popular backing while remaining plutocratic.

Evidence

This complex of demands, not always acknowledged, is at the origin of the historical justification of the so-called corporate trends, which manifest themselves for the most part in the form of an exaltation of the State in general, conceived as something absolute, and in the form of diffidence and aversion to the traditional forms of capitalism. The result of these phenomena is that in theory the State appears to have its socio-political base among the ordinary folk and the intellectuals, while in reality its structure remains plutocratic and it is impossible for it to break its links with big finance capital. Besides, it is the State itself which becomes the biggest plutocratic organism, the holding of the masses of savings of the small capitalists. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1155

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Mechanism of ideology masking class domination connects forward to how the Islamophobia literature reads state discourse as legitimation.

Related

• The State’s dominant group presents its interests as universal rather than corporate. (similarity 0.82)
• Revolutionary consciousness requires a precise concept of the State (similarity 0.82)
• A class lacking moral prestige can borrow the State’s reflected authority to found itself (similarity 0.81)
• Private corporate discipline can be absorbed into state ideology over time (similarity 0.81)
• The corporatist state is plutocratic in structure despite its populist base (similarity 0.81)
• The state lacks a unitary worldview, scattering intellectuals across strata (similarity 0.80)
• Juridico-political ideology masks the economic’s determinant role under capitalism (similarity 0.78)