Post-fascism explained

Post-fascism is a label that identifies political parties and movements that transition from a fascist political ideology to a more moderate and mainline form of conservatism, abandoning the totalitarian traits of fascism and taking part in constitutional politics.[1]

Creation

Its creator Gáspár Miklós Tamás stated in 2018:

In Italy

The Italian Social Movement (Italian: Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI) was a neo-fascist political party established in Italy in 1946 by former members of the National Fascist Party and the Republican Fascist Party. Despite being an explicitly fascist party, the MSI included a post-fascist faction headed by Arturo Michelini and Alfredo Covelli, who favoured political cooperation with moderate conservative parties, such as the Christian Democracy, the Monarchist National Party and the Italian Liberal Party.

In 1977 a moderate faction of the MSI led by Covelli split away and established National Democracy (Italian: Democrazia Nazionale, DN), the first real post-fascist party in Italy. Covelli attempted to create an alliance between DN and the Christian Democracy, but electoral results were very poor and DN was eventually disbanded in 1979.[2]

The MSI eventually repudiated fascism in a party congress held in Fiuggi in 1995, where the party voted to disband itself and transform into National Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Nazionale, AN),[3] [4] a party which has been labeled by several scholars and journalists, including academic Roger Griffin, as a "post-fascist" party.[5] A minority faction in the MSI, led by Pino Rauti, refused to abandon fascism and created a new party called Social Movement Tricolour Flame.[6]

The right-wing[7] party Brothers of Italy (Italian: Fratelli d'Italia, FdI), which was established in 2012 by several former members of AN and currently leads the government of Italy, has also been described as post-fascist party.[8] [9]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Post-fascist . thefreedictionary.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20210225042414/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/post-fascist . 25 February 2021.
  2. Web site: Veneziani . Marcello . 30 December 2003 . I percorsi della destra . The paths of the right . Marcello Veneziani . it-IT . https://web.archive.org/web/20210512135859/https://www.marcelloveneziani.com/il-giornalista/trapassato-presente/i-percorsi-della-destra/ . 12 May 2021.
  3. News: Lo strappo di Fini, il post-fascista . it . The tear of Fini, the post-fascist . . 12 December 1993 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220413043616/https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1993/12/12/lo-strappo-di-fini-il-post.html . 13 April 2022.
  4. Book: Baldoni, Adalberto .

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    . Storia della destra. Dal postfascismo al Popolo della libertà . it . History of the right. From post-fascism to the People of Freedom . Florence . Vallecchi . 2009 . 978-88-8427-140-2 . Google Books.
  5. Griffin . R. . Roger Griffin . 2007 . The 'post-Fascism' of the Alleanza Nazionale: A case study in ideological morphology . . 1 . 2 . 123–145. 10.1080/13569319608420733 .
  6. Web site: D'Esposito . Fabrizio . 2 November 2022 . Pino Rauti, chi era il missino e fascista 'rivoluzionario' che si oppose alla svolta di Fiuggi. Oggi la figlia Isabella è sottosegretaria . Pino Rauti, who was the 'revolutionary' MSI and fascist who opposed the turnaround in Fiuggi. Today the daughter Isabella is undersecretary . . it-IT . https://web.archive.org/web/20221102103814/https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2022/11/02/pino-rauti-chi-era-il-missino-e-fascista-rivoluzionario-che-si-oppose-alla-svolta-di-fiuggi-oggi-la-figlia-isabella-e-sottosegretaria/6859072/ . 2 November 2022.
  7. News: Giorgia Meloni's not-so-scary right-wing government . 2024-07-10 . The Economist . 0013-0613.
  8. News: 31 May 2021 . The Guardian view on Italian post-fascists: heading for the mainstream? Editorial . 20 December 2022 . . en . https://web.archive.org/web/20211127054238/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/31/the-guardian-view-on-italian-post-fascists-headed-for-the-mainstream . 27 November 2021.
  9. News: Winfield . Nicole . 26 September 2022 . How a right-wing party of neo-fascist roots became poised to lead Italy . . en-us . https://web.archive.org/web/20221115125345/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-a-right-wing-party-of-neo-fascist-roots-became-poised-to-lead-italy . 15 November 2022.

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