Italian political manifesto advocating fascism
Incipit of the Manifesto
The "Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals " (Italian : "Manifesto degli Intellettuali del Fascismo" , pronounced [maniˈfɛsto deʎʎ intelletˈtwaːli del faʃˈʃizmo; intellettuˈaːli] [ 1] [ 2] ), by the actualist philosopher Giovanni Gentile in 1925, formally established the political and ideologic foundations of Italian Fascism .[ 3] It justifies the political violence of the Blackshirt paramilitaries of the National Fascist Party (PNF — Partito Nazionale Fascista ), in the revolutionary realisation of Italian Fascism as the authoritarian and totalitarian rėgime of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini , who ruled Italy as Il Duce ("The Leader"), from 1922 to 1943.[ 4] [ 5]
Giovanni Gentile: Philosophical father of Italian Fascism .
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^ "Intellettuale: Significato e definizione - Dizionari" .
^ Jeffrey T. Schnapp (1996). Fascinating Fascism . Journal of Contemporary History , Vol. 31, No. 2, Special Issue: The Aesthetics of Fascism (Apr., 1996), pp. 235–244, accessed 4 February 2009.
^ Giovanni Gentile (1929). Origini e dottrina del fascismo . Rome, 1929, 69 pp., revised 1934, 105 pp.
^ Giovanni Gentile (1928). "Philosophic Basis of Fascism", Foreign Affairs , vol. 6 (January/February) 1928, pp 290-304.