Benedetto Croce: gli anni del fascismo

• Autores: Elisa D'Annibale, Gerardo Nicolosi, Franco Cardini, Marcello Rinaldi, Lorenzo Terzi
• Localización: Nuova rivista storica, ISSN 0029-6236, Vol. 105, Nº. 2, 2021, pág. 805
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Croce initially supported Mussolini’s Fascist government that took power in 1922. He later explained that he had hoped that the support for Mussolini in parliament would weaken the more fanatical Fascists who, he believed, were responsible for Matteotti’s murder, and absorb the Fascist movement into the liberal system. Croce later described Fascism as «malattia morale» (literally “moral illness”). However, turning Gobetti’s interpretation - the Fascism as “autobiography of the Nation” - Croce claimed that the Fascism had been a parenthesis on Italy’s history, likening the “coup d’état” of 28 October 1922 to the invasion of the Hyksos (the barbarian rulers of Egypt in the years 1650-1550 before Christ). In fact, the Mussolini rise to power was the liberal elite’s response to the forces that animated the revolutionary pressure of 1919-1920