The corporatist state is plutocratic in structure despite its populist base
Evidence
The historical unity of the ruling classes is realised in the State, and their history is essentially the history of States and of groups of States. But it would be wrong to think that this unity is simply juridical and political (though such forms of unity do have their importance too, and not in a purely formal sense); the fundamental historical unity, concretely, results from the organic relations between State or political society and “civil society”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 415 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
Related
- Statolatry must be criticised so civil society becomes self-governing and spontaneous (similarity 0.87)
- Ruling-class unity is forged through the organic ties between State and civil society (similarity 0.86)
- Organic and democratic centralism are organisational forms hiding real political relations (similarity 0.81)
- Corporate-statist ideology lets the State claim popular backing while remaining plutocratic. (similarity 0.81)
- States rule subject groups by allying with their internal elites (similarity 0.80)
- Corporatist state structures preserve rather than transform existing class order (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Organic and democratic centralism are organisational forms hiding real political relations
#expands(0.82) - Populism can be mobilized either against or in service of the power bloc
#expands(0.80) - Ruling-class unity is forged through the organic ties between State and civil society
#corroborates(0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 415 - Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error
#complicates(0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 958 - Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy
#corroborates(0.72)