THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM E-Book

Benito Mussolini

• Herausgeber: Lebooks Editora
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 35

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician, teacher, and journalist who wrote for left-wing newspapers. He enlisted in the army, rising to the rank of sergeant. In 1922, he organized the "March on Rome," and with the support of King Victor Emmanuel III, he took over the cabinet as the Prime Minister of Italy. In 1925, Mussolini became "Il Duce" (the supreme leader of Italy). Mussolini founded the National Fascist Party and became the most representative politician of fascist ideology. In "The Doctrine of Fascism," Mussolini synthesizes fascist doctrine and its principles while also pointing out what he considers the limitations of other ideologies such as liberalism and socialism.

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Benito Mussolini

THE DOCTRINE OF FACISM

Original Title:

La dottrina del fascimo

First Edition

Contents

INTRODUCTION

THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM

INTRODUCTION

Benito Mussolini

1883-1945

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was an influential Italian political leader. Initially a teacher and journalist, he enlisted in the military, rising to the rank of sergeant. In 1921, he was one of the founders of the National Fascist Party, and in 1922, he organized the 'March on Rome.' Mussolini is credited as one of the key figures in the creation of fascism, a totalitarian ideology that included elements of nationalism, corporatism, national syndicalism, expansionism, social progress, and anti-communism, combined with the censorship of subversives and state propaganda. Mussolini led Italy to join World War II alongside Nazi Germany. After the war's defeat, he attempted to flee but met a tragic end to his life.

The word "fascism" comes from the Italian word "fascio," which means "bundle" or "group." In Ancient Rome, a fascio was an axe surrounded by wooden rods. It was used by the bodyguards of magistrates who held power as an instrument of corporal punishment, but it was also a symbol of authority and unity: a single rod is fragile, but a bundle is difficult to break.

In the 20th century, Italian politician Benito Mussolini adopted this symbol for his new party. In 1914, he founded the Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria group, which later in 1922 became the well-known National Fascist Party. The use of the fascio was symbolic. Italy faced a deep crisis since its unification, and World War I (1914-1918) had worsened the situation. Mussolini promised, through fascism, to bring back the golden age of the ancient Roman Empire.

In this work, Mussolini synthesizes the fascist doctrine while pointing out the limitations of other ideologies such as democracy, liberalism, socialism, among others. Aggressive and bold, Mussolini claimed that fascists are more men of action than of words. He indeed played a role in deconstructing the political world of his time and actively participated in the construction of a new ideology called Fascism.

In this ebook, one can learn about the essential elements of Fascism as well as the thoughts of the man who best represented this ideology.

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THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM

Like all sound political conceptions, Fascism is action and it is thought; action in which doctrine is immanent, and doctrine arising from a given system of historical forces in which it is inserted, and working on them from within. It has therefore a form correlated to contingencies of time and space; but it has also an ideal content which makes it an expression of truth in the higher region of the history of thought. There is no way of exercising a spiritual influence in the world as a human will dominating the will of others, unless one has a conception both of the transient and the specific reality on which that action is to be exercised, and of the permanent and universal reality in which the transient dwells and has its being. To know men one must know man; and to know man one must be acquainted with reality and its laws. There can be no conception of the State which is not fundamentally a conception of life: philosophy or intuition, system of ideas evolving within the framework of logic or concentrated in a vision or a faith, but always, at least potentially, an organic conception of the world.