ABSTRACT
Corporatist–nationalism in Chile proved resilient both to liberal democracy and military rule and developed as minority social and political trends and movements that proved influential, especially in times of crises. The use of corporatist social, economic and political models became a sine qua non of the authoritarian–nationalist claim of representing a legitimate alternative to both capitalist liberal democracies and communist statism. Again, a mixture of authoritarian nationalism and corporatism was the base of its Movimiento Revolucionario Nacional Sindicalista political programmes, and they reflected the writings of father Lira, especially in his Nostalgia de Vazquez de Mella. Corporatist–nationalisms in Latin America politically confront a multifaceted problem of identities, social miscegenation, past and present cultural influences, adverse political models living through serious crises and the need to find a workable model of development. Corporatist organic representations, as explained in modern nationalist terms, implied a certain kind of politics and popular mobilization alien to military thought.
