Project Gutenberg 2025-10-20 Public domain in the USA. 273 Lion, Aline 28014920 The pedigree of fascism : $b A popular essay on the Western philosophy of politics $aLondon :$bSheed & Ward, $c1927. Sean/IB@DP The pedigree of fascism : A popular essay on the Western philosophy of… by Aline Lion is a political-philosophical essay written in the early 20th century. It examines Italian Fascism as both a national outgrowth and a universal doctrine, setting it against the political history of post-unification Italy and the broader currents of European thought. The work aims to clarify for general readers what Fascism claims to be, how it arose, and why its philosophy should not simply be exported, while situating its roots from the Risorgimento and World War I to an intellectual lineage running from the Renaissance to Croce and Gentile. The opening of the book asks whether Fascism is a revolution and answers by defining it as a new, immanent relation between State and citizen that rejects “natural rights,” binds rights to duties, and treats citizenship as a moral-spiritual practice. It contrasts universal ideas with their local, historical “form,” likens this to the French Revolution, and then surveys Italy’s political path: an elite-led Risorgimento that unified the state but ignored social and economic realities; a Liberalism that imported foreign models, mishandled Church-state tensions, and lacked party discipline; Socialism that awakened workers yet tilted toward materialist aims and coercive tactics; and Nationalism that was lofty but too external and statist. The narrative moves through Italy’s hesitant neutrality and irredentist push into World War I, arguing that the war (especially after Caporetto) forged a genuine national conscience, turning subjects into citizens—the true culmination of the Risorgimento—only for postwar disillusion, factory seizures, and Fiume to expose a hollow state. It concludes this opening movement by presenting Fascism as a practical, anti-ideological method that synthesizes class interests through duty-bound citizenship and order, then pivots to its philosophical pedigree, introducing Fascism’s aim-centered method, Gentile’s idea of liberty as the identification of wills (illustrated by a team captain), and the early modern roots of competing “realities” (Bruno’s historical, Bacon’s empirical, Descartes’ rational). (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/pedigreeoffascis0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up 20251014180711lion 1927 GB en Political science State, The Italy -- Politics and government -- 1914-1945 Partito nazionale fascista (Italy) DG Text 478185 2025-11-30T10:35:58.248016 text/html 446717 2025-10-19T22:24:25 text/html 326982 2025-11-30T10:36:04.254944 application/epub+zip 323987 2025-11-30T10:35:59.324963 application/epub+zip 275700 2025-11-30T10:35:58.779959 application/epub+zip 438899 2025-11-30T10:36:08.108931 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 401914 2025-11-30T10:36:03.755933 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 427133 2025-11-30T10:35:57.656988 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 407358 2025-10-19T22:24:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16320 2025-11-30T10:36:08.346924 application/rdf+xml 15144 2025-11-30T10:35:58.945956 image/jpeg 3047 2025-11-30T10:35:58.863968 image/jpeg 284629 2025-11-30T10:35:58.286968 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog