Mussolini's concept of the Corporate State referred to different groups or interests within a nation (social, cultural and professional, as well as economic), not necessarily to business corporations. The concept has more to do with institutions comparable to medieval guilds than to Microsoft or Exxon, and the concept is closer to syndicalism than traditional conservatism (Il Duce came out of the left, after all). Mussolini, in fact, supported state control of the economy over laissez faire capitalism. Loyalty would be to the state, rather than to social class, ending conflict within society (or so ran the argument). "Everything within the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state." Benito Mussolini.