A Primer of Italian Fascism

by Schnapp, Jeffrey T.; Sears, Olivia E.; Stampino, Maria G.

• ISBN13: 9780803292680
• ISBN10: 0803292686
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

'A Primer of Italian Fascism' makes available for the first time in English translation the key documents pertaining to one of our century's defining mass political movements. Whereas existing anthologies survey Fascist writings in a multiplicity of national settings, 'A Primer of Italian Fascism' opts for a tightly focused, in-depth approach that emphasises the development of Fascist ideology in the country of its birth. Historically speaking, Italian Fascism was the original Fascism. The model for subsequent movements including Nazism, Falangism, and Integralism, Italian Fascism set out to define a "third way" to modernisation known as "corporatism". 'A Primer of Italian Fascism' situates the rise and fall of corporatist ideals within the framework of the actual history of Mussolini's movement and regime. It includes not only classic doctrinal statements such as Mussolini's "Foundations and Doctrine of Fascism" and writings by corporatist theorists such as Bottai, Pellizzi, Rocco, and Spirito, but also an array of fundamental political and juridical documents, including the party platforms adopted by the Fascist combat brigades, the 1938 Manifesto of Race, the 1940 Manifesto of Verona, and the Fascist labour and school charters. By making available such an extensive array of source texts, 'A Primer of Italian Fascism' aims to open up for the English reader a more complex and complete vision of Fascism, both in Italy and beyond. Jeffrey T. Schnapp is Rosina Pierotti Chair of Italian Literature at Stanford University and the author of several books, including 'Staging Fascism: 18 BL and the Theater for Masses'

Author Biography

Jeffrey T. Schnapp is Rosina Pierotti Chair of Italian Literature at Stanford University and the author of several books, including Staging Fascism: 18 BL and the Theater for Masses.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Fascist Century	vii
A Chronology of Fascism	xvii
PART 1: FOUNDATIONS
Platform of the Fasci di Combattimento (1919)	3	(4)
Postulates of the Fascist Program (1920)	7	(3)
Program of the National Fascist Party (1921)	10	(9)
Excerpt from ``History of the Fascist Movement'' (1932)	19	(27)
Gioacchino Volpe
Foundations and Doctrine of Fascism (1932)	46	(29)
Benito Mussolini
Giovanni Gentile
PART 2: CORE AND PERIPHERY
Fascism as Intellectual Revolution (1924)	75	(13)
Giuseppe Bottai
The Two Faces of Fascism (1924)	88	(7)
Sergio Panunzio
Fascism's Problems and Reality (1924)	95	(8)
Camillo Pellizzi
The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925)	103	(22)
Alfredo Rocco
Fascism, Nationalism, and Reactions (1931) and Fascism, Revolution, and European Nonreaction (1931)	125	(16)
Delio Cantimori
Corporativism as Absolute Liberalism and Absolute Socialism (1932)	141	(13)
Ugo Spirito
Address to the National Corporative Council (14 November 1933) and Senate Speech on the Bill Establishing the Corporations (abridged; 13 Janunary 1934)	154	(18)
Benito Mussolini
Three Documents on Race: The Manifesto of Race (1938), Critique of The Manifesto of Race (1941-42), and New Revised Draft of The Manifesto of Race (1942)	172	(13)
Twenty Years of Critica Fascists (1943)	185	(13)
Giuseppe Bottai
The Manifesto of Verona (1943)	198	(9)
PART 3: FASCISM AND CULTURE
Nine Selections from the Debate on Fascism and Culture: Critica Fascista (1926-27)	207	(35)
Art and Fascism (1928)	242	(14)
Margherita G. Sarfatti
Excerpt from The Ideal of Culture and Italy Today (1936)	256	(12)
Giovanni Gentile
Two Excerpts from Futurism and Fascism: The Florence Address (1919) and The Italian Empire (1923)	268	(12)
Filippo Tommaso Marientti
Four Excerpts from Pagan Imperialism: Fascism before the Euro-Christian Peril (1928)	280	(17)
Julius Evola
PART 4: DOCUMENTS
Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals (1925)	297	(7)
A Reply to the Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals (1925)	304	(4)
Benedetto Croce
The Labor Charter (1927)	308	(6)
Excerpts from the School Charter: The Twenty-nine Declarations: Principles, Goals, and Methods of Fascist Schools (1939)	314	(5)
Bibliography in English	319	(2)
Index	321