sentences:  In fact it had been dominating the situation, and we did well to reduce its voice to one in four.” In general, the corporatist model is most often associated with fascism, whose rise in Germany and Italy in the 1930s coincided with Cárdenas's presidency.But Cárdenas was emphatically opposed to fascism; however, he created the PRM and organized the Mexican state on authoritarian lines.That reorganization can be seen as the enduring legacy of the Cárdenas presidency.