Corporatist gremialismo served as the intellectual-recruitment base for Chile’s coup
Evidence
The gremialista movement would ultimately provide an essential recruitment base for the pro-coup coalition. Established by Sergio Guzmán, a law professor at the CU and later one of the intellectual leaders of the military regime, his ideological project was based on corporatist ideas grounded in ultraconservative Catholicism. The gremialists sought to replace party politics with an authoritarian corporatist regime. Business interest groups and professional organizations (gremios) were assigned key roles in a system of functional representation that was to control and moderate the discretionary political power of the state (Teichman 2001, 25; Valdivia and de Zárate 2003, chapter 5). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1555
Categorization
- XREF: Functional representation replacing democratic parties is the classic corporatist formula (Mussolini-era Italian corporatism), worth comparing to the author’s earlier treatment of authoritarian state theory. — connects to: Chicago-trained economists and gremialistas joined forces in university politics before the coup — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1556; A radical corporatist ‘gremialista’ movement emerged at Chile’s Catholic University — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1554; 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 (+4 more)
- ADDENDUM: Authoritarian corporatism displacing party politics offers a contrast case to the sacrificial/sacral-ordering material in the sacrifice essay, as a different mechanism for stabilizing stratified societies.
Broader Connections
- A radical corporatist ‘gremialista’ movement emerged at Chile’s Catholic University
#expands(0.92) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1554 - Chilean corporatist thinkers like Guzmán converged with neoliberalism on antistatism and subsidiarity
#expands(0.88) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1567 - Corporate Catholicism and neoliberalism reconciled in Chile around depoliticizing civil society.
#expands(0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 357