Solidarism or solidarist can refer to:
* The term "
solidarism" is applied to the sociopolitical thought advanced by
Léon Bourgeois based on ideas by the sociologist
Émile Durkheim which is loosely applied to a leading social philosophy operative during and within the French Third Republic before the
First World War
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.
* The
Christian Solidarism of
Heinrich Pesch (1854–1926), which became substantially influential on
Catholic social teaching
Catholic social teaching (CST) is an area of Catholic doctrine which is concerned with human dignity and the common good in society. It addresses oppression, the role of the state, subsidiarity, social organization, social justice, and w ...
, from the Papal Encyclical
Quadragesimo Anno and beyond.
* The
Swedish system of labor arrangement in which labor unions and capitalists jointly set wages below market clearing levels. From this arrangement, labor receives
full employment and wage leveling, while capitalists pay less for labor, and do not have to worry about their employees being "poached" by firms who can offer more. This arrangement is traditionally enforced through employer organizations.
* New name used by
Otto Strasser to refer to his post-war interpretation of
Strasserism and its economics.
* A political and economic model developed by
Rudolf Diesel and laid out in his 1903 book.
* Among the
French far-right, solidarism refers to a tendency which was headed by
Jean-Pierre Stirbois and
Michel Collinot (
French Solidarist Movement). Solidarists support a non-capitalist, non-communist "
third position", and are generally opponents of the influence of both the Soviet Union and the United States. It was recently an influence upon the
Radical Network.
National Front member
Roger Holeindre claimed to follow this tendency.
* An element within the
White movement
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in Russia opposed to communism and seeking a Christian alternative to collectivism was called the
National Alliance of Russian Solidarists.
* The name of the social philosophy to which
Edward Bellamy, author of the American utopian novel
Looking Backward, adhered, and which Bellamy sometimes referenced as the Religion of Solidarity.
* A member of the
American Solidarity Party, a minor
Christian Democratic
Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics.
Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well ...
party in the United States, is often referred to as a "Solidarist".
* In
Belgium
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, the
far-right Verdinaso, which desired the unification of the
Low Countries into
one state, referred to itself as "National-Solidarist".
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