The Fascist corporate state aimed to neutralize class conflict generated by industrialization

Evidence

94 The main purpose of the corporate state was “that of correcting and neutralizing a condition brought about by the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century which dissociated capital and labor in industry, giving rise on the one hand to a capitalist class of employers of labor and on the other to a great propertyless class, the industrial proletariat. The juxtaposition of these classes inevitably led to the clash of their opposing interests” (The Fascist Era, published by the Fascist Confederation of Industrialists, Rome, 1939, Chapter iii). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2472

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the Fascist rationale for corporatism: dissociating capital and labor in industry created clashing classes, and the corporate state existed to correct that division.
• XREF: Connect to Gramsci and hegemony theory — the corporate state as an institutional answer to class contradiction, dissolving class identity into functional groupings. — connects to: Nazi imperialist expansion reconciled the Mittelstand to big business rather than challenging it — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 503; A Frankfurt sociologist argued industrialization is a misnomer for class struggle — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1681; Business-ideology sociology treated the factory as a convivial community and ignored management-employee conflict — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2095 (+4 more)
• ADDENDUM: The corporate-state strategy of dissolving class antagonism by re-organizing people functionally recalls how frameworks for managing class conflict parallel the sacrificial structures in ‘On Sacrifice’.