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Despois, Newman pasa a describir o corporatismo social –para o que
tamén utiliza o termo de corporatismo democrático–, que caracteriza, en plena
sintonía co modelo corporatista tripartito dominante, como unha forma
adoptada polo capitalismo:
Societal corporatism is a far milder alternative. It typically occurs in societies where
domestic democratic traditions are relatively firmly established but where, due to
reforms as well as erosion, time for realistic political incorporation of the subordinate
classes has evidently come about. Hence, it preserves democratic practices and
institutions beyond the mere honorific semblance, finds tolerable coexistence with party-
political activism – however emasculated – elaborates a series of vertically structured
functional associations with meaningful autonomous powers, relies largely on
ideological consent and persuasion, and emphasises rather than represses workers’
industrial organisation. [...]
[...]
[...] The consensual base of administration, the comprehensive platform of
participation, the emphasis upon depoliticisation and on technical criteria, the status of
parity accorded to organised labour, as well as the ideological stress upon
harmonisation, all promote societal corporatism even in the face of industrial workforce
threat of collective dissent, into a prime political prospective contender.
[...]
Democratic corporatism is also a form of persisting, and indeed possibly greatly
refined, Capitalism. The mode of production is fundamentally unchanged, social
relationships remain hierarchically stratified, imperatives of profit and accumulation
exercise unvaried sway, class conflict is barely assuaged, critical contradictions persist,
and indeed, while more intricately cloaked under the mantle of harmonisation,
repressive state power lurks as a more likely potential source. In other words,
corporatism may well emerge as Capitalism’s most apposite shell.
O mesmo autor (Newman, 1981, 230) conclúe que
early corporatism erred in ignoring the fact of class conflict instead of attempting to
resolve it. Its post-war successor is guilty of no such mistake. Contemporary
corporatism fuses state and society, is emphatically depolitical, operates on the
principle of triangular division of power, possesses a co-ordinate ideological base and
has, thanks to co-optation of the proletariat, achieved the necessary modicum of class
consolidation.
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