From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 1995| Author: Schneider, Joanne | Copyright information

An intellectual history of the origins of Italian fascism sounds like a contradiction in terms. Could a movement, usually defined by what it negated, actually have a concrete ideology? The authors recount fascism's intellectual roots, placing it directly within the European cultural tradition. Fascism derived from the Franco-Italian cultural complex around 1900. It emerged from the fusion of two diverse traditions: anti-materialist revision of Marxism and organic nationalism.

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