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Title: Readings on Fascism and National Socialism

Author: Various

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READINGS ON FASCISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM

Selected by Members of the Department of Philosophy, University of
Colorado

ALAN SWALLOW

Denver

PREFATORY NOTE

The ensuing readings are presented to encourage the student to clarify
his thinking on social philosophy. He will accordingly need to
determine whether the readings contain a more or less coherent body of
ideas which constitutes a social philosophy. He will also need to
raise the more far-reaching question whether the ideas are acceptable.
To arrive at any satisfactory answer to this latter question, he will
necessarily have to compare the ideas of fascism and their practical
meanings with the alternatives, real and ideal, that are the substance
of live philosophical issues.

CONTENTS

The Doctrine of Fascism by Benito Mussolini

The Political Doctrine of Fascism by Alfredo Rocco

The Philosophic Basis of Fascism by Giovanni Gentile

National Socialism by Raymond E. Murphy, Francis B. Stevens,
Howard Trivers, Joseph M. Roland

National-Socialism and Medicine by Dr. F. Hamburger

Selected Bibliography

THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM
By
BENITO MUSSOLINI

From the ENCYCLOPEDIA ITALIANA. Vol. XIV

The English translation of the "Fundamental Ideas" is by Mr.
I.S. Munro, reprinted by his kind permission from "Fascism
to World-Power" (Alexander Maclehose, London, 1933).

FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS.

1. Philosophic Conception.

Like every concrete political conception, Fascism is thought and
action. It is action with an inherent doctrine which, arising out of a
given system of historic forces, is inserted in