/lit/ - Literature

>>22016890
>like what
Reflections on Violence
>>22016886
>Why even have Gramsci in there
He should have Bordiga there who was referenced by Mussolini constantly.
> You do know he wrote his main works while being jailed for the type of worker protests
Do you even know *why* Gramsci was suggested? What were the charges? Officially he was abusing his diplomatic immunity for agiprop. Gramsci's Grandson even claim Stalin was mingling with Gramsci's release becase he was suspected.
>worker protests that Mussolini made a career out of squashing
Mussolini, surprisingly made a career out pacification.
>After the peace pact was announced, many of the leading ras opposed it, including Dino Grandi, Italo Balbo, Roberto Farinacci, and Piero Marsich, who refused to recognize the pact, creating a serious split.[21] In the city of Bologna, posters appeared that accused “Mussolini as a traitor to Fascism.”[22] In many Italian cities, including Florence, the local fasci decided to dissolve their local chapter to “protest against the Pact and Mussolini’s leadership.”
You are making the amateur mistake of lumping all of the FASCISTA into one movement when in reality it was a multitude of different independent groups with the shared zeitgeist of nationalism.

Here is a photo of Fascists volunteering for the city sannitation after a strike. The blackshirts were worki unform for a factory, though I forgot which. The myth of Fascism essentially begins, when during the post war crisis the workers raised the tricolor flag rather than the red one. But why did the Mussolini oppose the general strike? Well this comes from his own experiences from defending the general strike when no one else would.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Week_(Italy)

Our position is different as regards the Socialist Party. In the first place
we are careful to make a distinction between party Socialism and the
Socialism of Labour. (Comments on the Extreme Left.)
I am not here to overrate the importance of the syndicalist movement.
When you think that there are sixteen millions of working men in Italy and
of these hardly three millions belong to the syndicates, whether the General
Conference of Workmen, the National Italian Syndicate, the Italian
Workmen’s Union, the Confederation of Italian Economic Syndicates, the
White Federation or other organisations which do not concern us, and that
their membership increases and diminishes according to the times; when
you think that the really advanced and scrupulous thinkers are a scanty
minority, you will realise at once that we are right when we do not overrate
the historical importance of this movement of the working classes.