Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 0:27:26 GMT -5
If you watch the first documentaries about fascism you will quickly realize that everything was a caricature a series of mockery and jokes. This had a lot of influence. And the benefit of course went to the real neofascists who presented themselves as defenders of the good policies of fascism of great architectural works of large factories of the wellbeing of workers. Tby that process of defascistization of fascism. They said for example that fascism had done good works to justify it. You know well what Cervantes said that there is no bad book that does not contain something good. Allow me to insist on the issues related to the use of the word fascism as a weapon to describe political and ideological adversaries.
You remembered that in Gramsci called Amendola Sturzo and Russia Mobile Number List semifascists. We could also mention that Palmiro Togliatti applied similar concepts to Carlo Rosselli the liberal socialist who later died at the hands of fascism. What impact did the fact that communists followed the thesis of social fascism and applied the concept indiscriminately against their political adversaries even against those who were clearly antifascist have on the extensive and misleading use of the term fascism that we see today It had a great impact because as you say in Italian antifascism until and even in some cases until for the communists all noncommunist leftists were fascists or semifascists. Anyone who did not convert to the communist interpretation of fascism was a fascist.
This interpretation was suspended during the war and during the period of the Resistance but regained its place after the Liberation. After the communists began to call Alcide de Gasperi who was a Christian Democrat and antifascist a fascist and that process began again. Note that Lelio Basso an antifascist Marxist militant in published a book titled Two Totalitarianisms Fascism and Christian Democracy. A truly meaningless homologation. And we must bear in mind that this was said by Lelio Basso who was the one who in an article published on January in La Rivoluzione Liberale directed