La Dottrina Del Fascismo (1935) By Benito Mussolini
THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM. History, works and institutes edited by M. Gallian, A. Marpicati, L. Contu.
"The Doctrine of Fascism" (Italian: "La dottrina del fascismo") is an essay attributed to Benito Mussolini. In truth, the first part of the essay, entitled "Idee Fondamentali" (Italian for 'Fundamental Ideas'), was written by the Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile, while only the second part ("Dottrina politica e sociale", Italian for 'Political and social doctrine') is the work of Mussolini himself.
A key concept of the Mussolini essay was that fascism was a rejection of previous models: "Granted that the nineteenth century was the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy, this does not mean that the twentieth century must also be the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy. Political doctrines pass; nations remain. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the "right", a Fascist century. If the nineteenth century was the century of the individual (liberalism implies individualism) we are free to believe that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the State.
In 1940, Mussolini ordered all remaining copies of the document, which had different editions and translations, to be retracted "because he changed his mind about certain points".
Contains an unknown inscription
- Soft Cover
- 316 pages
- In Poor to Fair Condition- Cover has detached from Spine.
