Fascism and the many lives of Spanish corporatism in the authoritarian experience of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930)

Twentieth-century Spanish Corporatism was a multifaceted reality, which developed further and differently from the lesson of Italian Fascism. The authoritarian regime of Primo de Rivera was fundamental to the reception outside Italy of the Italian Fascist Corporatist model; it was, moreover, where the Catholic-Conservative ideology (developed in the wake of the Spanish crisis of the late Nineteenth Century), and the foundation of the Estado Franquista (after the Republican-Democratic moment of 1931) met. The article aims to reconstruct the cultural and institutional channels through which Fascist Corporatist thought was acknowledged in the Primoriverismo, which was at that time the first attempt, at a European level, to develop a consistent Corporatist constitutional and institutional project.