Has Fascism Ended with Mussolini?

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1748-6858|7|3|306-315

ISSN: 0034-6705

Source: Review of Politics, Vol.7, Iss.3, 1945-07, pp. : 306-315

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Abstract

This question may be answered by “yes” or “no,” according to one's point of view. Mussolini's Fascism—that of the black shirts, of banners bearing the skull and bones emblem, of the so-called Roman salute, of parades, punitive expeditions with muskets, clubs and castor oil, of the East African Empire and the Albanian Kingdom—may be called dead, even buried. But the Fascism that ante-dates Mussolini, the Fascism of all times and all countries—that brand of Fascism never dies. It adapts itself, instead, to all climates and all temperatures; it dresses according to the fashion, disguises itself and hides. That brand of Fascism has not died because it is deathless.