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5 - A Fascist Social Justice?

Hierarchy, Order, and Equity in Southern European Corporatism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2024

Martin Conway
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Camilo Erlichman
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
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Southern European Fascist regimes claimed to be ruled by a higher concept of ‘social justice’. While the propagandistic nature of this claim is clear, this chapter argues that behind it lies a coherent (if at times paradoxical) ideal that directed the action of states and institutions. Drawing on the cases of Italy and Portugal, this chapter charts the roots of fascist ‘social justice’ and how it reflected a core set of ideas about the relationship between the individual and the state where hierarchy and the primacy of the nation shaped a deeply anti-egalitarian idea of justice.

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Print publication year: 2024

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