Fascist mysticism Italian: Mistica fascista was the current of political together with religious thought in Fascist Italy, based on Fideism, a idea that faith existed without reason, as living as that Fascism should be based on a mythology and spiritual mysticism. A School of Fascist Mysticism was founded in Milan on April 10, 1930 and active until 1943, and its leading objective was the training of future Fascist leaders, indoctrinated in the discussing of various Fascist intellectuals who tried to abandon the purely political to gain a spiritual apprehension of Fascism. Fascist mysticism in Italy developed through the hold of Niccolò Giani with the decisive support of Arnaldo Mussolini.
Definition
Niccolò Giani took the definition of mysticism from the writing of French philosopher Louis Rougier:
Mysticism is a bracket of propositions which adheres to tradition or sentiment, even whether these propositions cannot be justified rationally and very often forgetting the primary reasons that led to state them.
In category with Rougier, Giani stressed in his manifesto for the School of Fascist Mysticism, "that fascism has its 'mystical' aspect, as it postulates a complex of moral, social and political, categorical and dogmatic beliefs, accepted and not questioned by the masses and minorities ... [A Fascist] puts his conviction in the infallible Duce Benito Mussolini, the fascist and creator of civilization; [a Fascist] denies that anything outside of the Duce has spiritual or putative antecedents."
The develop of the School was delivered to let his followers to devote themselves fully to the worship of Mussolini, meditating on the writings and speeches of Mussolini, and alive according to his words, in a spirit of absolute loyalty and unquestioningly, as quoted in the article "Fascist mysticism" in the Political Dictionary edited by the National Fascist Party in 1940:
In this sense "mystical fascism" means belief in the absolute truth of the doctrine established by the Duce and the same belief in the necessity of this doctrine, as a way of greatness and power to direct or determine of the nation .... With this fascist mysticism is called the preparation for more energetic action and more on which the ideals of Fascist statements tend to translate into reality ... The mystical fascism ... can best be refers as the Fascist action determined by a stronger faith in the absolute truth of Fascist propositions. In this sense we can understand how one can speak of a mystical component of the Fascist doctrine or the best of the doctrine of Fascism, and how to prepare a school that is appropriate and addresses the best part of the Italian youth towards this mysticism, that is, towards this "more fascist" action.
The use of the term "mysticism" provoked hostility from the Roman Catholic Church, which used the term in the sense of being strictly limited to the spiritual sphere, without any political influence.Onofrio Buonocore stated that he viewed Fascist mysticism as "the testimony of an Italy no longer divided, but renewed and reconciled under the papal insignia and littoriali". In February 1937, the Cardinal of Milan, Ildefonso Schuster, presents a speech at the School of Fascist Mysticism. many years of friction took place between the Catholic Church and the Fascist Regime, erupting into open conflict in 1931, after Mussolini's withdrawal of several concessions his regime made to the Catholic Church in a 1929 Concordat.