Economic Fascism: Primary Sources on Mussolini's Crony Capitalism by Celli Carlo & Celli Carlo

Author:Celli, Carlo & Celli, Carlo [Celli, Carlo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Axios Press
Published: 2013-10-06T21:00:00+00:00

Footnotes

a. “Tradition certainly is one of the greatest spiritual forces of a people, inasmuch as it is a successive and constant creation of their soul.” (“Breve Preludio,” in Tempi della Rivoluzione Fascista, Milano: Alpes, 1930, 13).

b. “Our temperament leads us to appraise the concrete aspect of problems, rather than their ideological or mystical sublimation. Therefore we easily regain our balance.”(“Aspetti del Dramma,” in Diuturna, Milano: Alpes, 1930, 86).

“Our battle is thankless and yet it is a beautiful battle since it compels us to count only upon our own strengths. We have torn revealed truths to shreds. We have spat on dogmas. We have rejected all theories of paradise, we have baffled charlatans—red, white, and black who placed miraculous drugs on the market to give “happiness” to mankind. We do not believe in programs, in plans, in saints, or apostles. Above all, we believe not in happiness, in salvation, in the promised land.”

“We do not believe in a single solution, be it economic, political, or moral, a linear solution of the problems of life, because, oh illustrious storytellers from all the sacristies, life is not linear and can never be reduced to a segment traced by primordial needs.” (“Navigare necesse,” in Diuturna, Milano: Alpes, 1930, 233).

c. “We are not and do not wish to be motionless mummies, with faces perpetually turned towards the same horizon, nor do we wish to shut ourselves up within the narrow hedges of subversive bigotry, where formulas, like the prayers of a professed religion, are muttered mechanically. We are men, living men, who wish to give our contribution, however modest, to the creation of history.” (“Audacia,” in Diuturna, Milano: Alpes, 1930, 11).

“We uphold the moral and traditional values that socialism neglects or despises; but, above all, fascism has a horror of anything implying an arbitrary mortgage on the mysterious future.” “Dopo due anni,” Diuturna, Milano: Alpes, 1930, 242).

“In spite of the theories of conservation and renovation, of tradition and progress expounded by the right and the left, we do not cling desperately to the past as to a last board of salvation: yet we do not dash headlong into the seductive mists of the future. (“Breve preludio,” Diuturna, Milano: Alpes, 1932, 14).

“Negation, eternal immobility, mean damnation. I am all for motion. I am one who marches on. . . .” (E. Ludwig, Talks with Mussolini, London, Allen and Unwin, 1932, 204).

d. “We were the first to affirm, in the face of demo-liberal individualism, that the individual exists only insofar as he is within the state and subjected to the requirements of the state and that, as civilization assumes aspects which grow more and more complicated, individual freedom becomes more and more restricted.” (“To the General Staff Conference of Fascism,” in Discorsi del 1929, Milano: Alpes, 1930, 280).

“The sense of the state grows within the consciousness of Italians, for they feel that the state alone is the irreplaceable safeguard of their unity and independence. The state alone represents continuity into the future of their lineage and their history.

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