Business & Government - Between Cooperation & Conflict

The "Loi le Chapelier" declaired illegal any intermediary organization that represented subsections of the citizenry and thereby inerfered with its direct relationship with the state.

The reason behind: The law was passed after the French Resolution. Before the resolution, people were not recognized as individuals but as members of established social groups (estates). The revolution aimed at a direct, unmediated relationship bvetween citizens and a state conceived as a republic of individuals. Society should be lieberalised.  

On the one hand, subnational collectivism of all sorts was suspected of diverting loyalty from the natinoal state and was seen as a threat to both political unity and individual liberty. But on the other hand, the preexisting economic power had not changed due to the revolution and workers only had power by acting collectively.

So, by acting against collective organization in the name of political unity, individual freedom and econeomic liberty to safeguard the proper individualism of the republic and of the marketplce the state acted in a totalitarian way which counterdicted with its liberal image: The state infringed on the very liberty it claimed to protect.

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