Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1932 (Sourcebook excerpts)

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• The 1932 Fascist doctrine denied that a numerical majority should direct society through periodic consultation.

  • supports · document paragraph 4 (‘denies that the majority ... can direct human society’)

• The 1932 Fascist doctrine contrasted nineteenth-century liberal individualism with a century of authority, collectivism, and the state.

  • supports · document paragraph 6 (‘century of individualism’ through ‘century of the State’)

• The 1932 Fascist doctrine rejected the Marxian account of history and class conflict.

  • supports · document paragraph 3 (‘complete opposite of Marxian Socialism’)

• In the 1932 doctrine, Mussolini and Gentile said that the Fascist state organizes the nation and decides which individual freedoms are essential.

  • supports · document paragraphs 7–8 (‘foundation ... conception of the State’ through ‘organizes the nation’)