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Entry: D'Annunzio, Mussolini, and the Fate of Empires Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/dannunzio_mussolini_and_the_fate_of_empires#5468 Post contents: Adriana's right that Naziism and Fascism ain't the same. Naziism is just an extremest form of nationalism and racialism. The State, for ol' Adi, was just the servant of the Volk and the Nation. And the State needed only to "purify" and "purge" the Volk of putative "unclean" races. For Benito, Italy wasn't a nation but a collection of city states that all hated each other (it still is). Italian unification in 1870 had not produced a nation or a single Volk. So the State, for Fascism, comes first, and it, with a fist and a jackboot, would make a nation. John Lukac's is good on this in his latest book on "populism". Both Fascism and Naziism believe in a violent revolution led by militarized Brownshirts when, afterwards, Phoenix-like, out of the ashes the purified and united Nation-Volk would emerge. See Roger Griffin's work on this. Both celebrate the Duce-principle and the enlightened party. Both loved socialism. Both hated capitalism, the bourgeoisie, the titled nobility, civil and human rights, etc. For both the individual person is nothing: the race, the nation, the state is all. To say the very least, all such views are and should be anathema to Real Conservatism's faith in long organic development through history and a loathing of all revolutions. Sent at: 2008 07 08