ABSTRACT
In recent times, several scholars of history or social sciences are paying close attention to the issue of corporatism, reappraising its importance in the political life of the 20th century and in particular of the period between the two world wars. This chapter deals with transnational diffusion of a fascist corporatist model, focusing on its interactions and effects into interwar transatlantic political connections. Meanwhile, similar judgements about fascist corporatism were appearing in the American press. Even if it is scarcely amenable to generalizations, for Latin America the 1920s were a period of relative economic prosperity, political stability and social innovations. As in Europe and the United States, so also in Latin America the fascist wave passed by particular political and intellectual networks, using the corporatist project as an ideological passe-partout. In fact, some Latin American universities and cultural circles were traditional think-tanks on corporatism, often linked to Catholic political thought.
