The Birth of Fascism

Delzell, Charles F.

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“…It is worth to point out that in the foundation of the Fasci di Combattimento on 23 rd March 1919 (prior to the foundation of the National Fascist Party in 1921) one of its key speakers was the abovementioned Marinetti. Three weeks after the formal creation of the Italian fascist movement its first violent act took place guided by Marinetti and another futurist artist: Ferruccio Vecchi (Delzell, 1971: 7; Milza, 1999: 241–2).…”

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The Aestheticization of Everyday Life and the De-Classicization of Western Working-Classes

Aguiar

2011

The Sociological Review

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This paper explores the relation between contemporary aesthetic features and the formation of cultural dynamics. We examine the role of the symbolic and ideological universe of the aestheticization of everyday life (AEL) in the formation of specific symbolic variables among younger generations of the workingclasses, mostly in the service sectors. The analytic lens focuses on the aestheticization of everyday life as a relevant cultural process of de-classicization of collective representations. According to Leroux, Rouanet, Savage and Warde, 'much of the (mostly qualitative) research on class identity and awareness insists on "dis-identification" (ie, people do not readily identify as class members or consciously adopt "class specific" activities' (Leroux et al., 2008(Leroux et al., : 1050. 1 In the same article, the authors state that 'people's stated intentions, desires and practices are marked by their hopes and fantasies, but these dissemble, rather than being the reflex of, their class locations' (idem). Consequently, they focus on how lifestyles are, to a large extent, connected with specific class locations, not how social agents conceive subjectively their cultural practices. This social discontinuity between class objective processes of social and cultural causality and the individual/collective perceptions of social life is the main theoretical object of our study. In this sense, processes of aestheticization presented in the paper (performativity, narrativization of self, body as practice, fragmentation, the role of image, and prosthetics) contribute decisively to the production of a general set of dispositions around an absence and invisibility of class languages in everyday life practices. The paper covers three interrelated sections. First, how aesthetics had configured relevant dimensions in the structuration of political life in Fascism as Walter Benjamin had envisaged at the time. Then, we will describe pertinent topics of the AEL and, to finish the article, how it induces a set of processes of de-classicization among new strata of Western working-classes. That is, de-classicization is posited as a cultural dynamic capable of displacing class dimensions from everyday life.

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The Aestheticization of Everyday Life and the De-Classicization of Western Working-Classes

Aguiar

2011

The Sociological Review

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“…Thus, according to Adolf Hitler, "the Movement lays down the principle that, in the smallest as well as in the greatest problems, one person must have absolute authority and bear all responsibility." 64 According to the Fascist Decalogue (1934):…”

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“…Except for some debate over the racist decrees in 1938, the only time the Grand Council played a significant role was the night of July 24/25,1943, when it appealed to the Crown against Mussolini. 63 All functions are thus embodied in the Leader. Thus, according to Adolf Hitler, "the Movement lays down the principle that, in the smallest as well as in the greatest problems, one person must have absolute authority and bear all responsibility."…”

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The myth of the conscious state

Martin¹

1996

The European Legacy

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The Birth of Fascism

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