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Fascist pre-war Universalism (1919-1935): a form of unrestrained fascism
Iannone, Demetrio
Iannone, Demetrio
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We will speak to the whole world. We will introduce Italy (...) to all other countries. We will use the radio, the theatre, the cinema. And, of course, we will use the press. But, above all, we will use men.” — Galeazzo Ciano, 1934.1 As Fascism became the hot topic of discussion amongst foreign right winged intellectuals of the 1920s, the Italian Fascists were starting to see that their ideology did not have a solely Italian nature. The Fasci Italiani All’Estero were the first tool to export Fascism outside Italian borders but the youth and totalitarian leadership-centered, xenophobic (later racially-wise), anti-liberal, anti-communist and corporativist nature of Italian Fascism started to be exported independently of the Fascist Regime’s efforts. Realizing such, the latter eventually recognized its international appeal also due to the general decadence of the liberal democracies following the Wall Street Crisis. The Italian Fascists went through the inter-war years concerned by how much vagueness to allow when defining fascism as a universal phenomenon. For them, vagueness would play both in favor and against the cultural imperialist aims that drove the entire attempt to marshal the internationalization of Fascism; remaining vague in setting clear ideological boundaries to allow penetration in national realities different from Italy’s while never doing without the stress on the Italian origins of the traits adapted elsewhere. With the rise of like-minded states like Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy found it difficult to share the podium of those admired by foreigners and eventually proved that disunity induced by ideological differences did not only plague left-winged organizations around the world but was something that affected the right as well
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Thesis (B.A. in History and International Affairs)--John Cabot University, Fall 2020.
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2020
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Fascism, Partito nazionale fascista (Italy)
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Iannone, Demetrio. "Fascist pre-war Universalism (1919-1935): a form of unrestrained fascism.". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2020.