Mussolini As Revealed in His Political Speeches, (November 1914 - August 1923) (Classic Reprint)

In an interesting article published last year in our Press, Ettore Ciccotti shows that Italian Fascismo does not represent an absolutely new political event, but is part of the general historic development of nations. In the first years )f its appearance it was compared to the krypteia of parta, to the eterie of A thens, and to similar phenomena, rhich are repeated as a manifestation of self-defence of trong and active groups or classes, uniting and forming mtres of resistance; exercising thus, by their extended :tion, general functions of State in a period in which its rotection is weak or inefficient, and shows signs of disintegration or degeneration. Other examples of this phenolenon can be found in the history of the Church and in ie Italian Communes, in England, Germany, in the Clubs fthe French Revolution, and in the rest of Europe. When a nation which shows such signs this form of vitality does lot exist, we witness the general collapse of that nation, in Russia at this moment, where only the radical uprootlg of Bolshevism might lead to the general resurrection )f the country. The after-war period in I taly, as elsewhere, had caused complete apathy, slackness and disorder in Parliamentary State functions, characterised by many elaborate programmes, but few facts. The Italian working classes, moreover, had been hypnotised by the nefarious gospel of Lenin, which had powerfully contributed to bring about the grave state of affairs in Italy in 1920, when the Communist peril had reached its acute stage.
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