Episodio 95: Dal Biennio Rosso alla Marcia su Roma

[Music] Cora Ask Barbero a podcast by Cora media and Intesa San Paolo or black Mussolini's language is very explicit and violence squadrist violence is part of the political practice of Fascism Here is another term that is often used squadrismo that has remained in the political lexicon even today and on this Naturally we have received a lot of

questions I chose this one from Simone who sent it to us from Novara because I think it broadens the discussion well Good evening Thanks for your podcast my question concerns the origins of the action squads could the professor help me understand well what the red suit represented and if as I read it was

decisive for the birth of the squads were they all right-wing oriented or did they also venerate left-wing and who financed them So the point is this actually the fascist party was born in an Italy where there is great tension and where a part a minority part of the country believes it can make a Soviet-style revolution there

is no doubt that between the proletariat and Italian among the workers of the big factories in Turin and Milan there was the idea to do as in Russia That is, here too it is the right time to overthrow the bosses to overthrow capitalism Let's say that in hindsight everyone says it was a losing project Italy

was not an industrial country there were large industrial centers and there were workers there was the Socialist Party But in most of the country in the whole of the center south there was practically no industry Furthermore those who politically organized the workers, that is the Socialist Party because the Communist Party did not exist yet, was born in 21 precisely