Statism
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Statism (or etatism) is a term that may refer to either one or both of the following:
- A major government role in the direction of the economy, both directly through state-owned enterprises and indirectly through the central planning of the overall economy.[1][2]
- A political viewpoint "that sovereignty is vested not in the people but in the national state, and that all individuals and associations exist only to enhance the power, the prestige, and the well-being of the state. The fascist concept of statism repudiates individualism and exalts the nation as an organic body headed by the Supreme Leader and nurtured by unity, force, and discipline."[3]
[edit] Economic statism in practice
Definition: Concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry.
Statism reached its highest point in the centrally planned fascist and communist countries, but exists in varying degrees throughout the world.[4]
[edit] See also
- Anti-statism
- Dirigisme
- Right Hegelians, a group of overtly statist German philosophers and thinkers
- Statolatry
- Populism
- Voluntaryism
[edit] Notes
- ^ "statism" Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. Taylor & Francis, 2001. p. 1475
- ^ "statism". Merriam-Webster.
- ^ "statism" Political Science Dictionary. Editor Jack C. Plano. Dryden Press, 1973
- ^ "statism" Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. Taylor & Francis, 2001. p. 1475
[edit] References
- Mikhail Bakunin (1873), Statism and Anarchy
- Nejatullah Siddiqi (1968), The Ideal of Statism. Islamic Public Economics.
[edit] External links
- Essays on Statism (2003). A critical analysis.
- Essays on post-statism (2006). Statism in the social sciences.
- Chapter 9 of The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky
- World's Smallest Political Quiz
- Statism is Dead - A series of videos from Free Domain Radio
