Left-Fascism thread.

[Anonymous No.19222619]

Thread for sharing and discussing literature and essays from members of the Fascist First Hour who fought until the end, authors including Benito Mussolini, Giovanni Gentile, Ugo Spirito, Sergio Panunzino, Mino Maccari, Berto Ricci, Elio Vittorini and F.T. Marinetti.

Also worth discussing is the communist opposition who ended up joining the Fascists in the civil war [Bombacci was executed and Bordiga who quit politics but expressed support in quiet]—as well as former Fascists who changed sides, A.O. Olivetti after the March on Rome; Edmondo Rossoni, Curzio Malaparte, Giuseppe Bottai, Romano Bilenchi who changed sides after the Italian Civil War.

Any literature from the time period is also welcome, the history of this period is quite a mess. Fascism meant something different to each and every single individual which I listed, but it is also what precisely made them all 'Fascists'.


Very difficult to find English translated works from these people. Fascism remains an enigma to those who are outside of it.

[Anonymous No.19222666]

>>19222619
>Elio Vittorini
He agitated for Fascists to help the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. He was kicked out of the party and switched sides after.

[Anonymous No.19222726]

While I personally wouldn’t join with lefties with my beliefs of fascism I would like to ask weather or not “A Greater Britain” by Ed Thomas is a good read, it sounds quite intriguing with an alternate history esk type book with Oswald coming into power if he had played his cards right.

I’m also interested in Oswald Mosley’s book “The Alternative”

[Anonymous No.19222733]

Have you read Marinetti and could perhaps tell me if there's anything I should read before "Mafarka"?

[Anonymous No.19222764]

>>19222726
>Mosley
I appreciate him but the man was a social democrat who liked to wear uniforms.
>>19222733
Yes I have but to really *read* Marinetti you have to learn Italian. He is a poet.

[Anonymous No.19222770]

>>19222764
I don't want to learn Italian, but just want to read one or two of his works. Could you tell me if Mafarka would be a good starting point?

[Anonymous No.19222803]

>>19222770
To get a feel for his work pic related would be a better place to start. It includes one of his other novels.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/819223.Marinetti

Marinetti is entirely prose and playfulness with the Italian language. Translations don't do his work any justice at all.

[Anonymous No.19222822]

>>19222803
>Marinetti is entirely prose and playfulness with the Italian language. Translations don't do his work any justice at all.
I totally get you, but there aren't many other Italian writers I'm interested in and I don't care about Marinetti enough to learn an entire language for him. Also would the manifesto maybe be a good start too? I usually prefer physical books and the selected writings seem to out of print.

[Anonymous No.19222866]

>>19222726
>While I personally wouldn’t join with lefties
Fascists are lefties anon. Not just any lefties but ultragauche[ultra-left]syndicalistes. Instead of waving the red flag it was the national one, the Fascists fought two different kinds of 'right-wing' regimes. The plutoctactic 'democracies' and the kasernenkommunismus 'soviets'. Fascist Italy was the underdog of World War 2 and they were practically fightingagainst the entire world.

>The fact is that as a young man Mussolini accepted all the essential theoretical and interpretive propositions of Marx. His published writings between 1902 and 1914 contain innumerable references to Marx and only seven allusions to Babeuf and eight to Proudhon. Both his published writings and what we can reconstruct of his reading during this period indicate a preoccupation with the ideas of Marx that far exceeds any concern he had for other thinkers. Mussolini's point of departure was unquestionably Marx. No adequate reconstruction of his thought is possible if that fixed point is neglected. Not only was he a convinced Marxist, he was a knowledgeable one as well. His published writings contain regular references to the works of Marx and Engels. He specifically refers to every major piece of Marx's published writings available at that time. He alludes to Marx's writings in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, the "Theses on Feuerbach," "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, The Class Struggles in France, as well as Capital and the Communist Manifesto. In a number of places he not only alludes to The Poverty of Philosophy, but provides extensive quotations as well. He also provides quotations from the Contributions to the Critique of Political Economy, the Marx-Engels correspondence, Marx's articles in the New York Tribune, and the Communist Manifesto. There are references to Engels' The Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1845, quotations from the Anti-Duhring, and Engels' famous introduction to Marx's Class Struggles in France. He was not only familiar with the most important Marxist authors of the period, including Karl Kautsky and Wilhelm Liebknecht, some of whose work he translated, but he had read the works of theoreticians such as G. Plekhanov and Rosa Luxemburg, and Marx critics such as Werner Sombart. ... Whatever one thinks of his Marxism today, Mussolini was accepted by his socialist peers as a Marxist theoretician. He rose to leadership in the Italian Socialist Party at least in part on the basis of his recognized capacity as a socialist intellectual.

>Mussolini insisted that Fascism was the only form of ‘socialism’ appropriate to the ‘proletarian nations’ of the twentieth century.

>>19222822
The Manifesto of Futurism is in that book. It's 12 bucks on Amazon. You can read it online for free.

[Anonymous No.19222888]

>>19222866
>Fascists are lefties anon. Not just any lefties but ultragauche[ultra-left]syndicalistes. Instead of waving the red flag it was the national one, the Fascists fought two different kinds of 'right-wing' regimes. The plutoctactic 'democracies' and the kasernenkommunismus 'soviets'. Fascist Italy was the underdog of World War 2 and they were practically fightingagainst the entire world.
>>19222619
>Italian Civil War
Pic related look familiar?
https://youtu.be/fT0xh2Xlo7k

[Anonymous No.19223109]

>>19222619
>Left-Fascism
IT'S CALLED COMMUNISM/BOLSHEVISM YOU FUCKING PARASITE

[Anonymous No.19223444]

>>19223109
read a fucking book illiterate retard

>Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution.
Mussolini—1914

>The worker who fulfills his social duty with no other hope than a piece of bread and the health of his family repeats, on a daily basis, an act of heroism. Labourers are infinitely superior to all false prophets who pretend to represent them. These false prophets have an easy time of it due to the insensitivity of those who have the sacrosanct duty of taking care of labourers. It is for this reason that I was, and am, a socialist. The accusation of inconsistency is without foundation. My behaviour has always been consistent in the sense of looking to the substance, not the appearance of things. As the natural development of society proved more and more of Marx's predictions to be wrong, true socialism retreated from the possible to the probable. The only feasible socialism that can be truly implemented is Corporativism—a merging point, a place of equilibrium and justice, with respect for collective interests
Mussolini—1945

Workers are 'parasites', bourgeoisie are 'productive members of society'. What a joke.

[Anonymous No.19223574]

>>19222619
>>19222866
>>19223444
kek this kind of stuff is why I am adamant about the distinction between Fascism and National Socialism I hate how this cancerous totalitarianism equating Nation with State bullshit is associated with the most noble thing I can conceive.