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Futurist Political Party
Futurist Political Party | |
|---|---|
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| Leader | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti |
| Founded | 1918 |
| Dissolved | 1920 |
| Merged into | Fasci Italiani di Combattimento |
| Newspaper | Roma Futurista |
| Ideology | Anti-clericalism Futurism Georgism Nationalism Republicanism National syndicalism |
| Political position | Left-wing[1][2][A] |
| National affiliation | Fasci Italiani di Combattimento (1919–1920) |
| Colours | Blue |
^ A: Upon its foundation, the party was left-wing in its orientation.[1] After merging with the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the Futurists represented the left-wing faction of fascism,[3] and broke off with Mussolini over his support for class collaboration between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie,[4] and his truce with the Vatican and the Italian monarchy.[5] | |
The Futurist Political Party (Italian: Partito Politico Futurista) was an Italian political party founded in 1918 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti as an extension of the futurist artistic and social movement. The party had a radical program which included promoting gender parity and abolishing marriage, inheritance, military service and secret police. It sought to respond to the economic and political demands of war veterans, workers, women, and farmworkers.[6] The party was absorbed into the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento in 1919.
The party had a syndicalist program that combined both socialism and Italian nationalism, but rejected the internationalism of the former and traditionalism of the latter.[7] Favoring a left-wing agenda, the Futurists unsuccessfully attempted to steer Fascism towards anti-monarchism, anti-clericalism, and revolutionary syndicalism. The Futurists then left Fasci Italiani di Combattimento in May 1920, and unsuccessfully sought an alliance with the Italian Communist Party.[8] Afterwards, some Futurists rejoined the Fascist party, while others joined the Italian Socialist Party.[6]
- ^ a b Judah, Katherine N. (2007). L'art pour I'art or I'art pour la vie? An Analysis of the Historical Avant-Garde Manifestos (PDF). The University of Edinburgh. p. 116.
The "Manifesto of the Futurist Political Party" of 1918 had a definite Leftwing, revolutionary stance, but it by no means propagated a society based on the Marxist model of abolishing class society and capitalism.
- ^ Donátková, Zuzana (2020). "Futurism and the Birth of Fascism" (PDF). West Bohemian Historical Review. 10 (1): 95.
Marinetti, whose political programme was based more on left-wing notions than Fascism, resented Mussolini's "transition to reaction", which gradually led to most left-wing Fasci members either leaving or being expelled.
- ^ Berghaus, Günter (2019). Handbook of International Futurism. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. p. 35. ISBN 978-3-11-027347-2.
- ^ Billiani, Francesca (2023). Fascist Modernism in Italy: Arts and Regimes. London: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-7883-1759-7.
- ^ Berghaus, Günter (2019). Handbook of International Futurism. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. p. 34. ISBN 978-3-11-027347-2.
- ^ a b Donátková, Zuzana (2020). "Futurism and the Birth of Fascism" (PDF). West Bohemian Historical Review. 10 (1): 96.
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