Goliath - The March Of Fascism (Paperback)

Text extracted from opening pages of book: GOLIATH The March of Fascism BY G. A. BORGESE New York THE VIKING PRESS * 937 CONTENTS Part I: Italian Background Dante 7 The Myths of Rome 13 Italy 19 Cola di Rienzo 25 Machiavelli 30 Intermission 44 Risorgimento 52 Query 67 Part II: Resurrection and Second Death Little Italy 71 Collapse of the Culture 78 D'Annunzio 86 A Poet Meets a Nation 94 The Radiant May - 102 Our War no Dalmatia 117 The Will to Suicide 124 V111 CONTENTS Part III: Beginning of the Black Age Wilson Quits 139 Fiume 150 Mussolini 1 69 The Anarchist and the Artist 187 Early Career and Failure 192 New Path 203 Part IV; March on Rome Fascism and Bolshevism 213 The Ego and His Own 218 The Hour of Decision 223 October 28 225 The Call of Mediocrity 243 March on-Corfu 25 1 January 3 261 Part V; The Faces of Tyranny High Tide 271 Socialism Disarms 284 Ordeal of the Intelligentsia 289 March on the Church The Murdered Is Guilty CONTENTS IX The World Considers Fascism 318 Fascism and Tourism 323 The Foreign Legion 330 A Doctrine of Its Own 334 Part VI: March on the World Seeking Whom He May Devour 345 Repercussions o an American Earthquake 353 Germany Joins Fascism 358 Writings on the Walls 372 The Ethiopian Choice 384 England Defaults 396 March on Geneva 413 March on Addis Ababa 423 The World Confusion 435 March on Madrid 443 Epilogue 455 As for Our Brothers in Italy 47 1 Appendix: The Wake of the Events 48 1 GOLIATH ! March of fascism i book is not based on the conviction that we already know everything, and that any human event, past and future, can and must be explained as the predestined result of economic determinism. It does not agree with the as sumption that human nature isstabilized and that human beings behave like robots whose reactions can be traced to laws as infal lible as mechanical laws are supposed to be. The opinion under lying this book was expressed long ago by Leibniz when he said that men are ruled by passions more than by interests. Its pur pose is to outline the characters of some of the personalities and the course of some of the passions which have carried us where we are. There was the Great Revolution, the French Revolution at the end of * the eighteenth century. There has been, and still is, the Great Involution: Fascism, with its totalitarian states and its tribal mysticism. The Great Involution started in Italy, between 1922 and 1925. The attempt to interpret it merely as an episode of Italian history proved futile. Its effects became as world-wide, at least for the time being, as those of the French Revolution. In 1933 Fascism conquered a greater nation, Germany 3 two and three years later, with the Ethiopian war, the fight against the League of Nations, and the invasion of Spain, it challenged the world. Meanwhile, 3 4 GOLIATH: THE MARCH OF FASCISM it threatened all the European West; the wave of its influence easily reached Japan 5 its breakers went as far as Louisiana, in these United States. An American author wrote If

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Imprint:	Read Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2007
First published:	March 2007
Authors:	G. A. Borgese
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	492
ISBN-13:	978-1-4067-6558-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-4067-6558-9
Barcode:	9781406765588

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