The Philosopher

Sergio Panunzio

The face

The background

Nationality:
Italian
Schools:
Marxism, Corporatism
Branchs:
National syndicalism, Italian Fascism

The synopsis

Sergio Panunzio (20 July 1886 – 8 October 1944) was an Italian theoretician of national syndicalism. In the 1920s, he became a major theoretician of Italian Fascism. Panunzio was born in Molfetta, Italy, and obtained degrees in jurisprudence and philosophy from the University of Naples. He became the head of the Fascist Faculty of Political Sciences at Perugia University in 1928. Panunzio viewed syndicalism as a development of Marxism, citing Georges Sorel and Francesco Saverio Merlino. He is credited with spearheading the revisionism that led many syndicalists towards corporatism and provided a "veneer of revolutionary legitimacy" for Mussolini's dictatorship. He criticized the Soviet Union's governance and the Communist International. Panunzio died on 8 October 1944.

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