Franco Freda

Franco Freda
Freda talks to his lawyers during a trial
Born (1941-02-11) 11 February 1941 (age 83)
Padua, Italy
Known forPiazza Fontana bombing (disputed)
Notable workThe Disintegration of the System (1969)
RegionWestern philosophy
School
InstitutionsOrdine Nuovo
Main interests
Notable ideas
Revolutionary traditionalism[1]

Franco "Giorgio" Freda (born 11 February 1941) is an Italian neo-fascist intellectual, author, revolutionary and political theorist. A major figure of the post-war far-right politics in Italy, Freda has been particularly associated with neo-fascism and revolutionary nationalism, advocating for a radical transformation of society along nationalist and revolutionary lines.

Born in 1941, Freda became influential in the Italian Right during the 1960s and 1970s through his writings and political activities. Freda founded Edizioni di Ar in 1963, a publishing house for neo-fascist thought. His most prominent work, La Disintegrazione del Sistema (1969), which mixed Evolian and Marxist notions, critiques Western democratic and liberal systems and advocates for a coalition between the radical right and the radical left in order to destroy the capitalist system.[2]

In 1969, during the Years of Lead, a period in Italian history marked by political violence and terrorism, Freda and Giovanni Ventura [it] were accused of being involved in the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, although Freda was later acquitted for lack of evidence for involvement in the bombing.[3][4][5] New evidence surfaced later and in 2004 the Milan Court of Appeal attributed the bombing to Freda and Ventura.[6]

In 1990, Freda founded the Fronte Nazionale, which was disbanded by the Italian government in 2000 when Freda and forty-eight other members were found guilty of attempting to re-establish the National Fascist Party.

  1. ^ Lebourg 2015.
  2. ^ Ferraresi 1996, p. 238.
  3. ^ "Piazza Fontana, la strage impunita". Archivio '900. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
  4. ^ "Dottore, ci parli di quei timer". la Repubblica. 23 January 1985. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
  5. ^ "Piazza Fontana,33 anni di misteri". la Repubblica. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Freda was invoked but never defined (see the help page).