Statism
Statism (or Etatism) is a term that may refer to any (or all) of the following:
- Government having a major role in the direction of the economy, both through state-owned enterprises and indirectly through the central planning of overall economy.[1]
- The "concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government."[2]
- The Fascist concept of statism which holds that "basic concept 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]
- Ideological passive or active support for any government and/or its practices, as a measure of degree. (Statism is the opposite of "support for anarchy" or "the abolition of government, or its practices or programs" when "anarchy" is properly defined as "the absence of government". Example: "I suppose that I am a statist, since I support the intermediary existence of a military, court system, and police force, but I'm not much of one, since I support abolishing all other government programs.") [4]
Economic statism in practice
Statism reached its highest point in the centrally planned socialist and communist countries. However, statism has existed in varying degrees throughout the world, including the Populist Party in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.[5]
See also
- Anti-statism
- Dirigisme
- Right Hegelians, a group of overtly statist German philosophers and thinkers
- Statolatry
- Populism
- Barack Obama
- Democratic Party (United States)
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" as more precisely defined by Jake Witmer, (a libertarian anarcho-capitalist incrementalist, meme distributor, and libertarian political petitioner) quote dated 04/08/2009
- ^ "statism" Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. Taylor & Francis, 2001. p. 1475
References
- Mikhail Bakunin (1873), Statism and Anarchy
- Nejatullah Siddiqi (1968), The Ideal of Statism. Islamic Public Economics.
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
