Futile Political Gestures: The Politics of Prefiguration: Fascist Gestures in Predappio, Italy

Paolo Heywood

 ‘I myself remember how, in the 1930s, even in the midst of our anti-fascist engagement, we could only laugh at Mussolini’s posturing and gestures – the rigmarole of fascist ritual – without attempting to understand their true import’. (George L. Mosse)   A crowd of men in black clothing filled the open area in frontRead more