Sansepolcrismo

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Sansepolcrismo
Basic Information
Alignments	AuthUnity to  AuthLeft  Culturally Alternate Modernist  Corporatists  Socialists  Revolutionary Nationalists  Third Positionists  Fascists  Nationalists  Syncretic
Ideological Alignments
Philosophy	Hegelianism
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Anti-Capitalism Anti-Clericalism Anti-Imperialism Anti-Marxism Freedom of Speech Irredentism National Feminism National Syndicalism Non-Marxist Socialism Republicanism Revolutionary Nationalism Social Corporatism Stratocracy
Character Information
Song	All'armi siam fascisti

Sansepolcrismo is an authoritarian unity, culturally Alternate Modernist ideology that preceded Fascism. The Sansepolcrismo takes its name from the rally organized by Mussolini at Piazza San Sepolcro in Milan on March 23, 1919, where he proclaimed the principles of Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, and then published them in Il Popolo d'Italia, on June 6, 1919, the newspaper he co-founded in November 1914 after leaving Avanti!

Sansepolcrismo is a term which refers to the movement that came before fascism led by Benito Mussolini. The movement originated on March 23 1919 at Piazza San Sepolcro in Milan. The ideological basis was a semi-socialist one, the movement presented itself as progressive in the beginning with a very radical program.

The program declares the movement as nationalist, anti-imperialist and syndicalist promoting the acceptance of the demands of the working class.

It is remarkable that initially the Fasci, according to Sansepolcro's program, were not properly anti-democratic, indeed declaring as their fundamental principle democratic participation in "free elections".

In the Italian Social Republic some of the points of this program were brought up again even if they were never really applied.

Origins

On March 2, 1919, Il Popolo d'Italia published a statement that included the program for a meeting for March 23, 1919. Further mentions of the meeting were published on March 4 in Genoa by the Fascist War Veterans publications Italia Redenta ("Italy Redeemed") and Pensiero e Azione ("Thought and Action"). Word of the meeting was then spread among various veterans' associations spread throughout Italy. The statement was reiterated later March 9 in Il Popolo d'Italia: "On 23 March an 'anti-party' will be created, the Fighting Fascists, who will face against two dangers: the reaction of the right, and the destructiveness of the left."

On the evening of March 21, 1919, the Union Local of the Association of Traders and Merchants in Piazza San Sepolcro officially formed the Fascio di Combattimento di Milano ("Milan Fighting Fascists"). Participants were afterward regarded as the so-called Fascio primigenio (“primitive Fascists”). After the first meeting of the council, they included: Benito Mussolini, Ferruccio Vecchi, Enzo Ferrari, Michele Bianchi, Mario Giampaoli, Ferruccio Ferradini, and Carlo Meraviglia. It also decided that the gathering of March 23 would be chaired by Ferruccio Vecchi and that their Executive Secretary would be Michele Bianchi.