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The

Doctrine of Fascism

B Mussolini & G Gentile


Synopsis
Amanda Chen (4279788)

This Doctrine is broken into 13 points. 1. Fascism is both practice and thought. It is a doctrine that arises from historical circumstances and works from it. To know men is to know man to know reality and laws. 2. Fascism views the world not as a material one. Man is not individually separated from others; he does not live a selfish life revolved around material things. Man is an individual who is nation and fatherland. 3. Life, conceived through the eyes of Fascism, is a struggle. Fascism desires a man who is active, one who uses all his energy and is conscious of all difficulties and is ready to face it. 4. The Fascist disdains the comfortable life. It is serious and religious, poised in a world supported by the moral and responsible forces of the spirit. 5. Fascism is a religious concept. Man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective will that goes beyond the individual but instead, raises him to the level of the spiritual society. 6. Fascism is a historical conception. There is great value in tradition in the standard of the social life. Outside of history, man is nothing. Fascism does not consider happiness possible and rejects teleological theories. It aspires to solve problems which occur historically and suggest their own solutions. 7. The Fascists conception is for the State, it is against Liberalism. The individual is supported if he coincides with the State. The State is the true reality of the individual, it is everything for Fascists, and nothing exists outside the State. The Fascist State supports the life of the people. 8. No individuals or groups exist outside the state. Therefore, Fascism is opposed to Socialism. Fascism recognizes the need from which stemmed socialism and wishes to bring them under the control of the State and give them a purpose within the unity of the State. 9. The first thing individuals form is the State. For Fascists, the purest form of democracy is if the nation is conceived qualitatively and acts become active within the conscience and will of all. It is a community historically perpetuating itself, unified by a single idea. 10. Fascists believe that it is not the nation that generates the State, but rather the nation is created by the State. This in turn gives to the people a will and therefore an effective existence. Thus the State, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right. 11. The nation as the State exists and lives as it develops. To arrest its development is to kill it. The Sate is the authority that governs and also welds a power that makes its will felt abroad. 12. The Fascist state takes over all the forms of moral and intellectual life of man. It is the conscience and intelligence of the whole person. 13. Thus, Fascism is not only the foundation of laws and institutions, but also the educator of spiritual life. It requires discipline and authority to remake the content, character and faith of human life.

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