What I’m Reading: The Anatomy of Fascism – 2 in a series – “Fasci di Combattimento”

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“Officially, Fascism was born in Milan on Sunday, March 23, 1919. That morning, somewhat more than a hundred persons,11 including war veterans, syndicalists who had supported the war, and Futurist12 intellectuals, plus some reporters and the merely curious, gathered in the meeting room of the Milan Industrial and Commercial Alliance, overlooking the Piazza San Sepolcro, to “declare war against socialism . . . because it has opposed nationalism.”13 Now Mussolini called his movement the Fasci di Combattimento, which means, very approximately, “fraternities of combat.”“

From The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

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