The American Minervan

Tag: Democracy

  • Giovanni Gentile on the True ‘Will of the People’ and Difference between Fascism and Nationalism

    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…

  • The Dan Smoot Report, 1966: “A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy”

    The Dan Smoot Report, 1966: “A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy”

    “The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty. In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our republic, and transforming it into a democracy. The foremost tactic of the subverters is subversion of “language” — by calling America a democracy, until people thoughtlessly accept the term, and use the…