From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 1995| Author: Schneider, Joanne | COPYRIGHT 1995 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.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.