LL201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: National Fascist Party, Fasci Italiani Di Combattimento, Squadrismo
13 Feb 2018
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Fascism: from the italian fascio (bundle or sheaf); recalls the latin fasces (axe encased in a bundle of rods that the roman magistrates carried) Before the rise of fascism, the sheaf of fasces was traditionally associated with the left; 1919: benito mussolini coined the term fascismo to describe the band of nationalist ex- soldiers and pro-war syndicalists that he was gathering. He called his movement the fasci di combattimento (fraternities of combat: the young mussolini. In the early 1900s mussolini was politically active among italian immigrant workers in. Between 1904-1914 he was considered a promising young marxist. From socialism to fascism: during wwi (1914-18) mussolini came to the conclusion that the worker" nationalism prevailed over their class solidarity. At bottom [fascism] is a passionate nationalism - paxton. 1921: mussolini founded the pnf (partito nazionale fascista) and changed the fascists" political position from anti-capitalism to anti-socialism.
