National Fascist Party

National Fascist Party
Partito Nazionale Fascista
AbbreviationPNF
Governing bodyGrand Council of Fascism
DuceBenito Mussolini
SecretariesSee list
Founded9 November 1921[1][2]
Dissolved27 July 1943[3]
Preceded byFasci Italiani di Combattimento
Succeeded byRepublican Fascist Party
HeadquartersPalazzo Braschi, Rome
NewspaperIl Popolo d'Italia[4]
Student wingGruppi Universitari Fascisti
Youth wingAGF,[5] ONB,[6] GIL[7]
Women's wingFasci Femminili
Paramilitary wingAction squads, Blackshirts[8]
Overseas wingFasci Italiani all'Estero[9]
Membershipc.a. 10 million (1930 est.)[10]
IdeologyFascism (Italian)
Political positionFar-right[11][12]
National affiliationNational Bloc (1921)[13]
National List (1924)
Colonial affiliations
  • AML (Italian Libya)
  • GEL (Italian Ethiopia)
Colours  Black[14]
Anthem
"Giovinezza" (lit. 'Youth')[15]
1924 versionⓘ
Party flag

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The National Fascist Party (Italian: Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) was a political party in Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian fascism and as a reorganisation of the previous Italian Fasces of Combat.[16] The party ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 when Fascists took power with the March on Rome until the fall of the Fascist regime in 1943, when Mussolini was deposed by the Grand Council of Fascism. The National Fascist Party was succeeded by the Republican Fascist Party in the territories under the control of the Italian Social Republic, and it was ultimately dissolved at the end of World War II.

The National Fascist Party was rooted in Italian nationalism[17][18] and the desire to restore and expand Italian territories, which Italian Fascists deemed necessary for a nation to assert its superiority and strength and to avoid succumbing to decay.[19][17][18][20][21][22][23] Italian Fascists claimed that modern Italy was the heir to ancient Rome and its legacy and historically supported the creation of an Italian Empire to provide spazio vitale ("living space") for colonisation by Italian settlers and to establish control over the Mediterranean Sea.[24][25][26] The party also supported social conservative stances.[27][28][29]

Fascists promoted a corporatist economic system,[30][31] whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in associations to collectively represent the nation's economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy.[32][33] This economic system intended to resolve class conflict through collaboration between the classes.[34] Moreover, the PNF strongly advocated autarky.[35][36][37][38]

Italian Fascism, similarly to German Fascism (Nazism), opposed liberalism,[39][40] but did not seek a reactionary restoration of the pre-French Revolutionary world, which it considered to have been flawed, and not in line with a forward-looking direction on policy.[40] It was opposed to Marxist socialism because of its typical opposition to nationalism,[41] but was also opposed to the reactionary conservatism developed by Joseph de Maistre.[42] It believed the success of Italian nationalism required respect for tradition and a clear sense of a shared past among the Italian people alongside a commitment to a modernised Italy, as well as a solid belief that Italy was destined to become the hegemonic power in Europe.[43]

The National Fascist Party along with its successor, the Republican Fascist Party, are the only parties whose re-formation is banned by the Constitution of Italy: "It shall be forbidden to reorganize, under any form whatsoever, the dissolved Fascist party."

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  3. ^ 27 July 1943 (disbanded)
    1 January 1948 (banned)
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  5. ^ (1921–1926)
  6. ^ (1926–1937)
  7. ^ (1937–1943)
  8. ^ After approval by the Council of Ministers (Mussolini Cabinet) on 28 December 1922, the draft law on founding the MVSN was approved by a resolution of the Grand Council of Fascism on 12 January 1923. The draft became law under Royal Decree No. 31 of 14 January 1923, issued by the King Victor Emmanuel III. The activities of the MVSN began on 1 February 1923.
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