Los orígenes de la democracia cristiana y la “tercera vía”: la búsqueda de bien y felicidad comunes en una época de corporativismos

Abstract

Through Giuseppe Toniolo, the Catholic tradition gave rise to Italian Christian Democracy in 1894. He would configure a model on the premises of Rerum Novarum, a recipe for well-being where society and economic science had to be rebuilt on the evangelical foundations, resulting in a third way between liberalism and socialism without class struggle or elements capitalist negatives. Citizenship, commerce, and industry had to function through professional associations, to produce and govern, and Economics would become Social Economics, achieving wealth formation, class harmony and common happiness. However, this world model required a certain authoritarianism to be implemented. This work makes a reflection on this model, contributing elements of its Spanish drift.