Italy: Hundreds perform fascist salute in Rome

Arutz Sheva ^ | 14/1/24

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Paid vacation?

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Riefenstahl’s films and Ezra Pound’s writings certainly reflected an aesthetic of aggregate order and symmetry. But as artists, their main concern was aestheticism. Il Duce, however, was looking away from international socialism, because he found no unity between international workers, who cheerfully killed each other in the trenches. So he looked instead to nationalism, and to the creation of nationalistic myths, in order to unify all Italians, Germans, or Spaniards, strictly as an example. He wasn’t concerned with aesthetics or even truth, so long as the nationalistic myths had the desired effect of unifying large numbers of men into one massive force.

Hitler emulated him, and created a much more vicious form of national socialism than Mussolini had envisioned. Franco emulated him, and created a relatively milder form of the same philosophy. All three became anti-communist, because they didn’t want the competition.

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One important limiting factor was also the need of the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese fascist regimes to make peace with the Catholic Church.

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According to Conrad Heiden’s Der Fuhrer, there was a period when the Nazi Party was taking over everything, but when they tried to take over the churches, Von Hindenberg let his displeasure be known, and Hitler slammed on the brakes. But the Protestant Church was not as strong in Germany at that time as the Catholic Church was in those other countries.