Abstract

From the many kinds of political regimes and languages - corporate, authoritarian and fascist - appearing in Europe during the 1930s, a common code and a common fabric may be deduced. All these regimes and languages shared a search for stability: institutions, a new social order, and ideological syncretisms, beyond the various national cases. Choosing this historical perspective allows us to go beyond the boundaries existing between traditional political families, and to trace events from the crisis of the 1930s to a problem enduring in modern societies: the relationship between democracy (understood as both political system and mass society) and the free market.