The Syndicalist Tradition and Italian Fascism

by David D. Roberts

Book Overview

This study focuses on the syndicalist intellectual tradition, which began as a revisionist form of Marxism, then gradually evolved into a kind of nationalist corporatism--the most important theoretical component in Italian fascism. Roberts shows how fascism could be at once popular and elitist, modern and traditional, procapitalist and anticapitalist, nationalist and anti-Italian, totalitarian and anticollectivist. He also illuminates the weaknesses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807897655
• ISBN13: 9780807897652
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"