By Aaron Gillette
Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the function performed via race and racism within the improvement of Italian id in the course of the fascist interval. The booklet examines the fight among Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial personality that may achieve extensive recognition in Italy.
This booklet could be of curiosity to historians, political scientists concerned about the advance of fascism and students of race and racism.
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19 While civilization in the North was “more fresh and more modern,” that of the South presents one with a moral and social structure that reminds one of primitive times, and perhaps even almost barbarous times, a social structure belonging to inferior civilization by now surpassed through the fatal cycle of modern social evolution. 20 Niceforo’s work had a direct influence on later Nordicist authors. 21 But the Nazis would not find favor with Niceforo’s lavish praise of modernism. 22 The Aryan thesis was by no means universally popular with Italian intellectuals.
69 Mussolini took his revenge several years later, when he published an attack against the major Nordic racial theorists, “Il pangermanismo teorico” in Il Trentino veduto da un socialista. Mussolini was particularly incensed by two assumptions these writers had in common: that the Aryan race was best represented by the Germanic people; and that the Italians were an inferior people. Mussolini related an encapsulated Nordic racist view of Italian history, replete with degenerating miscegenation and Germanic cultural superiority: 34 Racial identity in Italy, 1900–1915 The black psychology belongs to the Mediterranean peoples surviving the imperial degeneration and living inside the old frontiers of the empire.
At the conclusion of the war, the allies were sufficiently unimpressed with Italy’s military successes that they denied Italy much of the territory it had expected. Eventually Italy received South Tyrol, the Trentino, Trieste, and Istria; Fiume remained in contention for several years before eventually passing to Italy; and the vast majority of Dalmatia went to the newly created Yugoslavia. ” Over the next few years, political, economic, and social conditions in Italy rapidly deteriorated. Dissatisfaction with the state of Italy was widespread.