2022/05/13 by Gregorio Sorgonà · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Italian Fascism and Post-war Society #Negation #Communism #Politics #Vision #Movement (music) #Focus (optics) #Sociology #Extreme right #Right wing #Law #Political science #Political economy #Aesthetics #Linguistics #Philosophy #Anthropology
paper · doi:10.1080/1354571x.2022.2044646
openalex publication_date 2022/05/13 · openalex created_date 2022/05/22 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
The main Italian political parties are characterized by different, often diverging, visions of Europe. My article will focus on the right side of the political spectrum, a space in which very different, at times irreconcilable, instances are kept together. Their unifying element can be identified not by chance in a negation, anti-communism, although it too is declined in very different forms. Within this world, the article will deal with the Italian Social Movement (M.S.I), an extreme right-wing party that refers to fascism. The M.S.I. develops a political discourse that is in many ways redundant on Europe, considering it first and foremost a metapolitical entity rather than a historical reality. This discourse, however, developed interdependently with the party’s empathy for the Atlantic and anti-communist side.