Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 5:31:08 GMT -5
Faced with these documents faced with these data to speak even today of a revolutionary red danger of a communist threat in Italy is one of the greatest nonsense that can be said. The idea of the Bolshevik danger was installed and used by fascism to build its myth of national salvation but it is completely far from what the historical facts were . In many of his books but particularly in The Cult of the Littorio. Italy you defined fascism as a political religion and located it within the broader phenomenon of the sacralization of politics.
What constitutes a political religion and what made Russia Mobile Number List constitute such Indeed political religion is an aspect of fascist totalitarianism and the first to refer to fascism as a political religion were antifascist Catholics and liberals. They alleged that fascism intended to impose its ideology that is the exaltation of the nation the exaltation of the Duce and the exaltation of fascism itself as a dogma to which everyone had to submit constituting itself as a political religion of the nation. This type of imposition practice was deployed even before fascism developed its dictatorship.
Already at the end of and through fierce beatings the fascists forced people to take off their hats and bow as they passed. Antifascist Catholics like Luigi Sturzo understood that fascism could not in any way be compatible with Catholicism and that the Church could not support fascism because it was a pagan movement that sacralized the nation and the State. The term political religion then spread among other antifascists who observed the way in which the regime imposed its rites its symbols and its myths on the entire Italian population through violence.