Sergio Panunzio

Sergio Panunzio (July 20, 1886-October 8, 1944) was an Italian theoretician of revolutionary syndicalism. In the 1920s, he became a major theoretician of Fascism.

Panunzio said that syndicalism is the historical development of Marxism. He pointed to George Sorel and Francesco Severio Merlino as revising Marx to fit the times and emboldening it. He is said to have spearheaded the revisionism that led many syndicalists through interventionism to corporativism and he ostensibly "gave Mussolini’s dictatorship a veneer of revolutionary legitimacy."cite web
author=Clarke, Jay
title=Fascism and Bolshevism
work=History of Modern Italy
url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050315080916/http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy350italyclarke.htm
accessdate=2006-04-24 (From the Internet Archive, 2005-03-15)]

Biography

Born in Molfetta near Bari, he started his political involvement young by associating with syndicalist circles in 1902. From the University of Napels, he obtained two degrees in jurisprudence in 1908 and in philosophy in 1911. from 1928, he was the head of the Fascist Faculty of Political Sciences at Perugia University

Panunzio criticized the Soviet state as a "dictatorship "over" the proletariat, and not "of" the proletariat." Also, he is quoted as saying "Moscow bows before the light radiating from Rome. The Communist International no longer speaks to the spirit; it is dead." He opposed the anti-Semitic campaign of 1938.

Panunzio's works

*"La Persistenza del Diritto (Discutendo di Sindacalismo e di Anarchismo)" [The Persistence of the Right (A Discussion about Syndicalism and Anarchism)] (Pescara: Casa Editrice Abruzzese, 1909).
*"Diritto, forza e violenza; lineamenti di una teoria della violenza. Con prefazione di R. Mondolfo" (Bologna, L. Cappelli, 1921)
*"Italo Balbo" (Milano, Imperia, 1923)
*"Stato nazionale e sindacati" (Milan: Imperia, 1924)
*"Che cos' è il fascismo" (Milano: Alpes, 1924)
*"Lo stato fascista" (Bologna: Cappelli, 1925)
*"Il sentimento dello stato" (Rome, Libreria del Littorio, 1929)
*"Il diritto sindacale e corporativo (programma, concetto, metodo) (Perugia-Venezia: "La Nuova Italia", 1930)
*"Popolo, nazione, stato (esame giuridico)" (Firenze, "La Nuova Italia" Editrice, 1933)
*"I sindacati e l'organizzazione economica dell'impero" (Roma, Istituto poligrafico dello stato, Libreria, 1938)
*"Sulla natura giuridica dell'impero italiano d'Etiopia" (Roma, Istituto poligrafico dello stato, Libreria, 1938)
*"L'organizzazione sindacale e l'economia dell'impero" (Roma, Istituto poligrafico dello stato, Libreria, 1939)
*"La Camera dei fasci e delle corporazioni" (Roma, Stabilimento arti grafiche Trinacria, 1939)
*"Teoria generale dello stato fascista" 2. ed., ampliata ed aggiornata (Padova, CEDAM, Casa editrice dott. A. Milani, 1939)
*"Teoria generale dello stato fascista", 2nd ed., enl. (Padua: CEDAM, 1939)
*"Spagna nazionalsindacalista" (Milano, Bietti, 1942)
*"Motivi e metodo della codificazione fascista" (Milano, A. Giuffrè, 1943)

References

*cite book
editor = Rees, Philip (ed.)
title = Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890
year = 1991
id = ISBN 0-13-089301-3
*cite book
editor = Griffin, Roger (ed.)
title = Fascism
year = 1995
publisher = Oxford University Press
id = ISBN 0-19-289249-5
*cite book
last = Roth
first = Jack Joseph
title = The Cult of Violence: Sorel and the Sorelians
year = 1980
id = ISBN 0-520-03772-3
*cite book
last = Gregor
first = Anthony James
title = Young Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism
year = 1979
publisher = University of California Press
location = Berkeley
id = ISBN 0-520-03799-5

ee also

*List of fascists