Tag: Benito Mussolini
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Giovanni Gentile on the True ‘Will of the People’ and Difference between Fascism and Nationalism
“The nationalistic State was, therefore, an aristocratic State, enforcing itself upon the masses through the power conferred upon it by its origins. The Fascist State, on the contrary, is a people’s state, and, as such, the democratic State par excellence.” — GIOVANNI GENTILE Marcello Veneziani on the Spirit of Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism and Rebuilding Italy…
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The Thermopylae of Fascism: Benito Mussolini’s Last Testament on His Life, Fascism, and Italy
The Thermopylae of Fascism “For this common ground,” Mussolini said in his last days of the Italian Social Republic (Salò Republic), “I would give my life even now, willingly, so long as it is truly marked with real Italian spirit.” (Testamento politico di Mussolini, 1948 Italian first edition, p. 5; dictated April 27, 1945). In…
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Everyone now sees fascists
An excerpt from Brendan O’Neill’s essay, Bolsonaro is not a fascist, on the danger of branding everyone a fascist; something rather than genuinely foreboding, becoming a sign of intellectual laziness. INTRODUCTION Mussolini’s made a prediction of the future in the Last Days of his “Italian Social Republic” in 1945, when he gave instructions to Italian…
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Behind the Visual Propaganda of the ‘New Italian Woman’ in Fascism | Victoria de Grazia’s ‘How Fascism Ruled Women’
INTRODUCTION Victoria de Grazia explains in her book, “How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945,” that the New Italian Woman (Nuova Italiana) in the Fascist Ideal was not as one might imagine as displayed in Italian and German pictures, or in the propaganda of marching, busty and fit, militant and disciplined Athena-esque women. There was really…
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Angelica Balabanoff on Mussolini’s Problem in the “The Young Mussolini” film (1993)
Before Sono Tornato and Vincere A few months ago, I ordered from Amazon the film Il Giovane Mussolini (1993), renamed “Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini.” I wanted to see what difference the film was to the later more psychological interpretation of Mussolini’s mind in Vincere (2010). In The Young Mussolini, Benito Mussolini is…
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Jean Mamy’s Anti-Masonic Propaganda Film, “Forces occultes” (1943): The Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy
Jean Mamy’s “Forces occultes” claimed to unveil the mysteries of Freemasonry (Updated, 09/27/2019). 1942, the French were occupied under Germany during the rule of the National Socialist Party. The Propaganda Abteilung delegation of Germany’s propaganda ministry by ex-mason Jean Mamy (known by the pseudonym Paul Riche), commissioned the film Forces occultes (Occult Forces: The mysteries of Freemasonry unveiled for…
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Oswald Mosley’s Ideal of Fascism
IDEALS OF FASCISM VERSUS REALITIES OF FASCIST RULE Oswald Mosley, a British Fascist, contributor to Third Positionism, and once seen to be a future leader of the Conservative and Labour parties, advocated a completely integrated pan-European State. This State would combine, in his vision, all of the European genius, he orates, which would be able…
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Theosophy in Italy and Under Fascist Rule | The Prefect of Genoa Report (1939)
HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY DURING WORLD WAR AND UNDER FASCIST RULE, INCLUDING THE PREFECT OF GENOA’S REPORT JAN 1939 – HELENA P. BLAVATSKY frequently visited Italy, in namely Bologna, Bari, Trieste, Venice, Rome, and Naples. Many of her acquaintances in Italy became members of the Theosophical Society. In 1851, H.P.B. met Giuseppe Mazzini, and at…
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