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The Doctrine of Fascism by Benito Mussolini

This PDF was translated by James Soames for the Political Quarterly, 11/1933. Quoted below is excerpts from the article:

"This is an authorized translation of an article contributed by the Duce last year to the 14th volume of the Enciclopedia Italiana. References to and some quatatins form it have appeared in the press but no translation of this statement by Mussolini of the philosophic basis of Fascism has yet been published in English."

"Fascism was not the nursling of a doctrine worked out beforehand... it born of the need for action and was from the beginning practical rather than theoretical... was itself a living movement."

"... We shall combat every retrograde idea, technical or spiritual..."

"...that word 'corporation' arose, which later, in the course of the Revolution, came to express one of the creations of social legislation at the very foundation of the regime?"

"This anti-pacifist psirit is carried by fascism even into the life of the individual; the proud motto of the Squadrista, 'me ne frego', written on the bandage of a wound, is not only the summary of a politiical doctrine; it is the education to combat, the acceptation of the risks that combat implies, and new way of life for Italy."

"The Fascist state is an embodied will to power and government; the Roman tradition here is an ideal of force in action."

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