17/03/2026
"I recently read Roland Sarti’s cheery little 1971 book, Fascism and the Industrial Leadership in Italy, 1919-1940. I’ll write about it in a future post; it’s dense and I want to think about how to clearly explain its economic analyses. For this post, I want to focus on a dialectic implicit to the throughline of the book: the Fascist movement’s tension between economic and cultural focuses. This post argues that such a dialectic can be seen outside the narrow field of industrial policy. The three sets of lyrics to the PNF (National Fascist Party) anthem, written at different points in Fascist movement’s history, provide a vivid demonstration of this tension."
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By Giuseppe DiMassa I recently read Roland Sarti’s cheery little 1971 book, Fascism and the Industrial Leadership in Italy, 1919-1940. I’ll write about it in a future post; it’s dense and I want to…
