{"id":102678,"date":"2026-09-23T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102678"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:13:15","slug":"corporatism-and-fake-mussolini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/corporatism-and-fake-mussolini\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporatism and Fake Mussolini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jwGSKr0tw2M?si=GNA1UDVAplwTuuDi\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 22 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>No direct sci-fi angle here, just a clarification of a widely-held misconception about what Fascists believed, exemplified by an oft-repeated fake quote with some tangents on Eco, Gramsci, and others. Since the subject of Fascism and mythologizing of WWII comes up a lot here, it seems appropriate to address this one.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a link to Umberto Eco&#8217;s essay for those who are interested. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbk9xNGRRdjdubFF0X0tmMFFPSVRGMkVpMjNwUXxBQ3Jtc0tsVWtOVmpqMFpMQVU4M3FLcTZtTmlUM0NRb29pdHRZbWdBREJOM3VXNzJ1dE9uUEdPc29YX25XMDYxSVg0eGdlZGgtM0x4M3c2dlNjVTJyN0dab3UxTy1FellwaDMzcDROMmdES1c3VkVISnNkci0wdw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fia802906.us.archive.org%2F31%2Fitems%2Fumberto-eco-ur-fascism%2Fumberto-eco-ur-fascism.pdf&#038;v=jwGSKr0tw2M\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ia802906.us.archive.org\/31\/it&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to the usual science fiction as cultural artifact essays next week.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And now the shameless self-promotion section: <em>Stellar Drift<\/em> is now available. https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GTVXK4CN<br \/>\nAnd of course the prologue novel <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em> as well. amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 22 May 2026 No direct sci-fi angle here, just a clarification of a widely-held misconception about what Fascists believed, exemplified by an oft-repeated fake quote with some tangents on Eco, Gramsci, and others. Since the subject of Fascism and mythologizing of WWII comes up a lot here, it seems appropriate to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,339,53],"tags":[780,347,457,1593,622,1135],"class_list":["post-102678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-italy","category-politics","tag-communism","tag-debunking","tag-fascism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-ideology","tag-mussolini"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qI6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102679,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102678\/revisions\/102679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}