[lbo-talk] Creeping Fascism

[Chip Berlet]

I did what Michael did, tracked down as much of Mussolini's writings in English as I could find, and I ended up in the same book.   I found a copy of the Encyclopedia Italiana (in Italian) and had every paragraph with anything close to "corpor" in it translated. Nothing even as direct as what Michael lists below, which is a typical sentiment from Mussolini about what he meant by fascism as the "corporate state."

 
If anyone else has anything more direct from Mussolini, please let me (and Michael) know.

 
-Chip

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I tried for a while a few year's ago to locate Chip's hoax quote.  This is the
closest I came:

Mussolini, Benito. 1936. The Corporate State (Firenze: Vallecchi).

  32: "Fascist corporate economy is the economy of individuals of associated groups
and of the State."

  47-8: "This fond of economy is regulated, strengthened and harmonized for the sake
of collective utility, by the producers themselves -- be they employers, technicians
or workers -- by means of the corporations created by the State which, representing
as it does the whole nation."

--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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