Associazione Nazionalista Italiana

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The Associazione Nazionalista Italiana ( Italian Nationalist Association ), ANI for short , was founded in 1910 and was the first nationalist party in Italy . As a pioneer of revolutionary nationalism , she significantly influenced the development of the Partito Nazionale Fascista and is therefore also assigned to protofascism .

history

The most important thought leader of the ANI, founded in 1910, was the nationalist writer Enrico Corradini . In contrast to the Marxist class struggle , he developed the concept of the "proletatic nation". As a result, the Italian nation should fight for its rightful place in world politics and secure peace and prosperity at home through a "national socialism" . For this, the law professor designed Alfredo Rocco in 1914 the doctrine of authoritarian corporate state, which greatly from corporative state was influenced ideas. The long-term goal of the ANI was military expansion and the building of a new Italian empire .

With the Semper Pronti appearing in blue shirts , the ANI was also the first right-wing extremist Italian party with its own militia , which carried out physical attacks on the political left. This organization served as a model for the fascist black shirts . In terms of its social structure , the ANI remained limited to the middle and upper classes , despite revolutionary rhetoric . In contrast to the PNF , ideological doubts about loyalty to the Italian monarchy were never raised .

During Mussolini's “ March on Rome ”, leading representatives of the ANI offered King Victor Emanuel III. to let the Semper Pronti go into battle against the Black Shirts , but the latter refused. After Benito Mussolini's appointment as Prime Minister, the ANI joined the PNF in 1923. As a result, many leading party members such as Alfredo Rocco were able to get into powerful offices under the new government, from where they helped shape the development of Italian fascism .

literature

  • Stanley Payne : History of Fascism. The rise and fall of a European movement. London 1995 (practice Berlin 2001).