The multidimensional Horizon of the Fascist State. Concepts, Lexicons, Discourses
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https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v43i.4374Keywords:
State, Nation, People, Party, CorporatismAbstract
The paper aims to reflect on the differentiated, polysemic and multidimensional character of the Fascist State, starting from the examination of some of the categories used by the legal science of the period to define it. The analysis concerns in particular the terms totalitarian state, strong state, ethical state, corporative state, nation-state, people-state, party-state. Following the theoretical debate that grew up around the different attributions of the state, the often fragmented and conceptually indefinite contours of Fascist state doctrine are traced. Each conceptual cluster considered describes an aspect of the tumultuous historical-political experience of Fascism and suggests thinking of Mussolini’s State as a constellation of themes, ideas and discourses around which the regime developed its own self-definition.
