fascism: from adolf to benito

From: The Sunday Herald | Date: May 2, 2004| Author: Reviewed by Iain Macwhirter | Copyright information

the anatomy of fascism by robert o paxton (allen lane, (pounds) 20) Sicily has a lot to answer for. It gave us the Mafia, the modern drugs trade and vendetta. It also had a hand in the origin of fascism. The peasants who rose against the landlords of Sicily in 1893 called themselves the Fasci Siciliano, roughly meaning "solidarity".

Benito Mussolini, teacher, bohemian novelist and socialist orator, rather liked the sound of that. So did his syndicalist collaborators and the Futurist i...

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