corporativistn.adj.
/ˈkɔːp(ə)rətᵻvɪst/, U.S. /ˈkɔrpəˌreɪdɪvᵻst/, /ˈkɔrp(ə)rədɪvᵻst/ Now historical.
A. n.
A supporter or advocate of a corporative state: see corporative adj. 2.Used esp. with reference to Fascist Italy (1925–43).
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1921 Internat. Labour Rev. Sept. 27 The confusion of mind from which the Corporativists of Ciminaghi, the Republicans of Fusacchia, and the Southerners of Guarino and de Falco all equally suffer.
1931 tr. G. Bottai in T. Sillani What is Fascism & Why? 37 Neither can all the interpretations of the corporation in the economic order be accepted. Both from extreme corporativists and from the guardians of private initiative come some errors of interpretation.
2006 D. D. Roberts Totalitarian Exper. Twentieth-cent. Europe vi. 318 Although business was forced into a cat-and-mouse game with the [Italian Fascist] regime, the business community generally managed to avoid the political coordination that totalitarian corporativists envisioned.
B. adj.
Of, belonging, or relating to a corporative state: see corporative adj. 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [adjective] > based on corporate organization
corporative1925
corporativist1935
1935 Economica 2 98 In Rosenstock's book one finds also an instructive discussion of the attempts of several Italian writers to develop a Corporativist economic doctrine.
2010 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 1 Dec. fp15 The New State [in Portugal] was officially committed to a corporativist economic system that envisioned the replacement of individualistic competition by the collaboration of vital social groups in production decisions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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