Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those jubilant Americanists who a few months ago were noisily celebrating the triumph of Italian Fascism are strangely silent. The determined rejection of Muscovite nostrums by the ex-soldiery of Italy was followed by a similar movement in Germany, and hasty prognosticators saw the Ku Klux Klan as a symbol of an American stand against foreigners and foreign doctrines. It has been impossible to discover the person who applied the tack to the over-inflated balloon of bourgeois self-righteousness, but it evidently has been applied: perhaps the sturdy citizen himself was not among the last to grasp the ridiculous...
Although the opposition press appears, if at all, with innocuous comments, although parades and meetings of Communists are resolutely forbidden, although Mussolini uses all his faculties in geeing and hawing a turbulent assembly along the path of Fascism, it is evident that the mailed fist has strained its sinews. His hold on the Italian imagination is gone. It may be weeks or months before Mussolini disappears, but the romantic light of the dawn of Fascism has already vanished under the cruel glare of a full day of oppression, and it seems that the Italian people but awaits the time...
...trouble with Fascism is that it is too firm a believer in violence. When an Opposition deputy is too curious about the administration, he is put out of the way if not by the order at least with the acquiescence of Mussolini Socialist newspaper editors are harried unmercifully, even when they are not allowed to print their papers. But such methods are not conclusive. It is the old attempt to kill an idea by killing the men who champion it, and it is about as successful as the inquisition was Indeed, the bloody instruction which the Fascists teach is only...
...Opposition is daily guilty of moral violence against Fascism by painting it as something which it absolutely is not. Fascism has given wonderful proofs of discipline in the face of overt provocations and will continue to remain disciplined. But I ask you, who were my companions in the War, in the trenches, on the Carso, where we suffered and bled and fought and won together : 'Can we turn back...
Advice and demands are showered upon us. We are surrounded by pedagogues and mentors. Every one has a dilemma on whose horns he wishes to impale us. They all forget that Fascism fought in 1919, 1920 and 1921, leaving some thousands of glorious dead, some ot them hardly more than boys, on its way and dared to carry out the Revolution in 1922 without first asking anyone's leave. My dear pedagogues, please confer the inestimable boon on us of reserving at least part of your sermons for those gentlemen who militate in the Opposition camp because the pacification...