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Mussolini Visions World on Threshold of Better Civilisation
The huge armament companies have influenced the policies of nations of t he world to suit their own purposes. Industries on land and sea rill the houses of parliament in every country with men, vassals to tbeir own interests, that they might control legisla the economy of this century.
Benito Mussolini, writing on the solution of the World crisis, rays:— Just as the advent of steam and the machine heralded the doom of the purely mercantike and craft economy at the end of the Eighteenth Century, so now technological science and the super-machine with its anarchic and uncontrolled overproduction her. aid the doom of the free capitalistic regime, dear to the liberalism which has given the word of command to humanity now for 150 years.
Crisis shakes Power. That is the extent to which this capitalistic machine, abandoned to its material impulses, has led us. It has tormed states within the state, and it has taken this historic crisis to shake its power.
We are on the threshold of this turn which is a prelude to a change in the economic and social structure, and we have entered a new phase of civilisation. which is operating and already has given results in several great countries of the world. In my address at Milan, October 6, which I dedicated particularly to the workmen of that great industrial city, 1 plainly stated that the crisis through which we had passed for the last five years was not one of those usual crises, that it was not one of those recurring cycles in the economic trend which bankers and industrialists had been accustomed to e:pect and which ordinarily terminated in a relatively brief period of time.
This shows then the grip those ,tates of individuals or groups had on toe state of all the people, namely the nation. And there was no nation in t he world free from dictation by big business.
It is indeed a crisis in civilisation, in which the system of economy is affect-. ed and the whole social organisation is forced to 'radical modification in order to adjust itself anew to the state of things.
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individuals or interests of those First Solution. Typically Italian. groups who claim the right freely to Fascism was born out ot historic Fascism was the first to come on the fleece their fellow citizens. f orces, typically Italian, but of uniscene with a solution based on the It is now forced upon all that the versal import. It is indeed a develrealisation that it was a crisis of orwelfare of the mass is the best guaropment of those forces. Other nations have by ganisation. Facing what has been called a crisis, now come to that realisation. and not antee of the prosperity of the whole according to periodic precedent, when least of these is, indeed, America. with and that welfare must be attained through collaboration of the producin reality it is something more, it is its doctrine of the "New Deal- and tive forces of the state. r eady to deal and has dealt with the NRA. Problem on the lines of a change in The new civilisation cannot bestow facing the in The first requirements civilisation, rather than a momentary affairs brought so vivid- upon the owning class the sole right state of new interruption in the system. to operate the nation's industries spely before our minds by the length of cifically for their own private gain E ven as far back as October 24. the depression- is recognition that individual profits cannot be considered and own private wishes and power. 1931, in an address I delivered at any more as the dominating objective There have been industrial organisa..<aples• I described the childish efforts of the age. It is now incontrovertible tions which have become more powerw hich had been put forth by the that the welfare of the nation as a ful than the state in which they exist s tatesmen of the world to solve the whole is far more important than the ed. crisis. They had conceived of the depression as a periodic capitalistic crisis, whereas there were evidences on every hand to show it was an impact in the processes of the economic and social life of the world. I deplored the fact that the world had not risen to the occasion, and I declared it was time to realise that the old machine's working parts had been definitely broken and • the machine c ould not meet the exigencies of the modern world. F ascism has gone far even since t hat address. The corporative state is getting nearer to realisation every day, and is meeting the problem of the twentieth century with methods of the twentieth century. T he crisis was not a crisis to be s olved by bankers and financiers with their own strategies and manoeuvres; itf was a crisis which' required the use • science to regulate the social and economic organism. just as science had been used to improve the machine, so science• guided by politics-that is, the used to lift state—should have been into which the world out of the chaos it was plunged by the black days of October, 1929, "CHARITY.- DRYSDALE RIVER MISSION, W.A. In my recent Milan address. I enunciated clearly that the new civilisa An Article appears on Pages 3 and 4. tion is the the economy one which will dominate of this century.
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Fascism asserts the •supremacy o: t he state over all. The state is the • •oncentiation of the ph.:.'sical, moral, intellectual, and economic potentialities of the nation. Fascism. abope all, will not tolerate domination of the ::tate by one single class to the detriment of other classes. Fascism recognises diverse te,cial categories, but t hese cannot maintain an open cornhat within the state at the expense of the welfare of the state. Forces operating within the state must be coordinated in the interest of the whole and 'cannot constitute a danger, jeopardising to the whole. Basic Framework. Too long have the nations of the world discussed in Parliaments issues which had no serious bearing on the economic structure of the nation. Fascism seized on this structure as the basic frameworn for production of the nation's wealth. It cannot be dis. torted or torn asunder by quarrels ot prifate groups—by industrialists or labour unions. These must be com pleted to come within its orbit and under its command. All Fascist legislation from 1926 onwards has been inspired by these prin• ciples. This is the basis of the cor porative state. Producers are brought within the framework of the nation's production They are inducted into it on equal t erms. We do not tolerate solely a voice for industrialists and no hear• m ug for workmen. We give both equal participation. The workman is much a factor in production as the industrialist or the technician. We recognise him and give him opportunity for an appraisal of his skill and hi, interests in the operation proceqses the productive system. We recognise the rights of labour — enumerated as general principles in our labour charter. They give direction to all our action. Such prin iples constitute to-day the wealth of the Italian working class. It explains the profound change of the great masses towards the regime. Their attitude is that of sincere adherence and they demonstrated it during me recent visits -to Apulia and Lombardy. All young workmen belong to Fascist organisations and even the old ones who in other days belonged to the left parties, felt that Fascism has realised what was realisable in old ideals, while it has destroyed what was absurd, what was in contradic tion with story and life. Even in the field of lab-our the moral unity of the Italian peoples is complete and a victory for and a pride to Fascism.
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