The syndicalist tradition and Italian fascism

@inproceedings{Roberts1979TheST,
  title={The syndicalist tradition and Italian fascism},
  author={David D. Roberts},
  year={1979}
}
This study focuses on the syndicalist intellectual tradition, which began as a revisionist form of Marxism, then gradually evolved into a kind of nationalist corporatism--the most important theoretical component in Italian fascism. Roberts shows how fascism could be at once popular and elitist, modern and traditional, procapitalist and anticapitalist, nationalist and anti-Italian, totalitarian and anticollectivist. He also illuminates the weaknesses of the regime.Originally published in 1979.A… 
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