[lbo-talk] Fw: Re:"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power." -Benito Mussolini

[Michael Pugliese]

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Hi, 

Alleged quote: 

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and
corporate power."

-Benito Mussolini 

This quote is probably a hoax quote.  It is not in any translation I can find of Mussolini's article on Fascism in the Enciclopedia Italiana (1932), to which it is generally cited. 

I have tracked down the original 1935 English version of Mussolini's pamphlet: 

Mussolini, Benito. 1935. "The Doctrine of Fascism." (Firenze: Vallecchi Editore). 

This is cataloged by some librarians as a translation of Mussolini's (apparently with Gentile) article in the Enciclopedia Italiana (1932). 

A longer booklet which contains "The Doctrine of Fascism" as a chapter is: 

Mussolini, Benito. 1935. "Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions." (Rome: 'Ardita' Publishers). 

The quote above does not appear in either booklet.   I asked a scholar in Europe to find the quote in the Enciclopedia Italiana (1932), and he said he could not find a sentence that translates into the quote above. Until someone who reads Italian, and checks the Enciclopedia Italiana (1932), and finds there is a sentence that can be accureatly translated into the above quote, I think it should be considered a bogus quote.

Mussolini was writing about cross-class corporatism, not business corporations. His article makes it clear that under Fascism, state power is absolute.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

Chip Berlet

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