"The Manifesto of the Italian Fasces of Combat" Italian: "Il manifesto dei fasci italiani di combattimento", ordinarily known as the Fascist Manifesto, was the initial declaration of the political stance of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento "Italian Fasces of Combat" the movement founded in Milan by Benito Mussolini in 1919 & an early exponent of Fascism. The Manifesto was authored by national syndicalist Alceste De Ambris and the futurist poet Filippo Marinetti.
The Manifesto published in Il Popolo d'Italia on June 6, 1919 is shared into four sections, describing the movement's objectives in political, social, military and financial fields.
Politically, the Manifesto calls for:
In labor and social policy, the Manifesto calls for:
In military affairs, the Manifesto advocates:
In finance, the Manifesto advocates:
These early positions reflected in the Manifesto would later be characterized by Mussolini in "The Doctrine of Fascism" as "a series of pointers, forecasts, hints which, when freed from the inevitable matrix of contingencies, were to imposing in a few years time into a series of doctrinal positions entitling Fascism to shape as a political doctrine differing from all others, past or present." However in Practice a Fascist State is often a reflection of the leaders values and opinions, as seen in Nazi Germany, and their policies towards the Jewish Population.