Fovel theorized the corporation as a self-contained productive bloc against parasitic savers

Evidence

What would appear significant in Fovel’s thesis, as summarised by Pagni, is his conception of the corporation as an autonomous industrial productive bloc destined to resolve in a modern and increasingly capitalist direction the problem of further development of the Italian economic apparatus. This is opposed to the semi-feudal and parasitic elements of society which appropriate an excessive tithe of surplus value and to the so-called “producers of savings”. The production of savings should become an internal (more economical) function of the productive bloc itself, with the help of a development of production at diminishing costs which would allow, in addition to an increase of surplus value, higher salaries as well. The result of this would be a larger internal market, a certain level of working-class saving and higher profits. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1087

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Fovel’s conception of the corporation as an autonomous productive bloc in contrast to parasitic ‘producers of savings’ — a key corporatist doctrine concept.
• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s broader critical theory of corporatism and state-economy relations, and later Islamophobia readings on how economic ideology constructs social blocs.