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ECHOES OF IL DUCE, 'CORPORATISMO'.(OPINION)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)

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From: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
Date: 20061001
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Byline: ROBERT HENRY ADAMS

We are hearing the term "Islamofascism" being bandied about in the media these days.

Shortly after World War II, I spent a year and a half in Italy, doing relief and reconstruction work with a unit of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). While there, I learned a few things about fascism in the land where it was invented (in its modern form, at least).

Mussolini came into power in the 1920s, heading a political movement which, in its early stages, was called "corporatismo." It described what its leaders thought about the ...

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