[lit-ideas] The Pushfulness of Italians and Fascists
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:39:23 -0800
From the EB, 13th edition (pub 1926) , Volume II, page 18, the article on
Fascism:
"Sig. Mussolini in an article in Gerarchia (Oct. 1925) compares 'the
incessant and fertile activity of the Government with the paralysis of all
the opposition parties within the Chamber and without. Everyone, explicitly
or otherwise, is convinced that in the Italy of 1925 Fascism alone towers
like a giant.' The defects of Fascism are the general defects of the
Italian character: the tendency to rhetoric, arrivismo (excessive
pushfulness of men on the make), which has been accentuated by the creation
of the many party offices and appointments, often filled not by the
worthiest but by the most pushful and ambitious. . . ."
Lawrence
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