‘Organic unity through a new order’: Ideas of corporatism and the Norwegian Nasjonal Samling

This paper analyses the complex relationship between ideas of corporatism, the Norwegian fascist party Nasjonal Samling (National Unity, NS), fascist Italy, and fascist internationalism in the 1930s. It demonstrates how the NS fused the foreign corporative model provided by fascist Italy with nativi...

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Published inLaboratoire italien Vol. 32
Main Author Hamre, Martin Kristoffer
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
French
Published Laboratoire italien 22.07.2024
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Editions
Subjects
corporatism
fascist internationalism
fascist Italy
Norwegian Fascism
Quisling (Vidkun)
Norwegian Fascism
fascist internationalism
corporatisme
Italie fasciste
internationalisme fasciste
fascist Italy
corporativismo
corporatism
fascisme norvégien
internazionalismo fascista
Quisling (Vidkun)
Italia fascista
fascismo norvegese
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Summary:This paper analyses the complex relationship between ideas of corporatism, the Norwegian fascist party Nasjonal Samling (National Unity, NS), fascist Italy, and fascist internationalism in the 1930s. It demonstrates how the NS fused the foreign corporative model provided by fascist Italy with nativist traditions and used corporatism to its ends as a signifier for a national and international ‘new order’ on the rise, based on ideas of solidarity. The NS party manifesto from 1934 envisioned corporatism as a promising alternative to capitalist liberalism and as a solution to the parliamentary crisis. The corporatist NS program also facilitated connections between the Norwegian party and Italian Fascism, culminating in the idea of corporatism as a uniting principle of fascist internationalism in the mid-1930s. Finally, the paper discusses briefly the legacy of the corporatist NS program and its fragmentary implementation in the 1940s during the German occupation of Norway (1940-1945).
ISSN:1627-9204
2117-4970
DOI:10.4000/122lf