Strategy of Tension 🏴

The Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano) was a legal political party of the post-war era that openly identified itself with "neo-fascism". Subsequently, MSI declared themselves "post-fascists", it is worth noting that in Italy there is a difference between these two concepts.

If at first the party's rhetoric and ideology were dominated by ideas that came from among those who remained faithful to the legacy of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Social Republic of 1943-1945, MSI later took positions similar to those of the conservative right. In 1972, the party merged with the Italian Democratic Party of Monarchical Unity (PDIUM), which adhered to moderate conservatism and monarchism. After this merger, Destra Nazionale (National Right) was added to the party name. In such a symbolic way, MSI-DN began to distance itself from traditional fascism, which did not identify itself with the right, but postulated a kind of "third way" in relation to the cosmopolitan left and the reactionary right.

Loyalty to the fascism model of 1919 and 1943 was retained by other, extra-parliamentary, groups that emerged from among the MSI youth organizations in the late 1970s and actively joined the armed struggle against left-wing radical terror and the political regime of the Christian Democratic Party.

Today, the awakening individual sees that the god of the ballot paper is an empty scrap of rag without importance. The universal, identical, secret yet direct, voting right is not a magic wand but a tool of disintegration in the hands of folkish hostile demagogues. Is this universal right to vote then to be taken away from women? Yes! But also from men! A folkish state will not undertake to make major decisions through anonymous male and female voting masses. Such decisions will be made by responsible personalities.

Liberalism taught freedom of movement, free trade, parliamentarianism, emancipation of women, equality of men, human equality, equality of the sexes, and so on. In this, it sinned against a natural law that creation only arises through the release of polar conditioned tensions. That is, a high degree of energy is necessary to perform work of any kind. To create culture. Today, in the midst of the collapse of the feminised old world, the National idea demands strength, type forming, restriction, discipline, protection of racial character and a straightforward recognition of the eternal polarity of the sexes.

Alfred Rosenberg. The Myth of the Twentieth Century