di Massimo Farina

Abstract: between skies and seas crossed by seaplanes, two stories set in completely different periods and places tell the metapolitical meaning of fascism according to Miyazaki Hayao. The internal conflict of the human being, aware of his microfascist nature, leads him to deleterious relationships with his fellow men and with nature. Despite the awareness of this innate human condition and the consequent disillusionment, the message of hope for change and universal reconciliation is constant.

Keywords: Porco Rosso – Anime – Conan – Fascism – War

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di Flavia Monceri

Abstract: the idea that «fascism» should be considered kind of a «product of the past», which might emerge never again, seems to be not completely convincing, if that does not mean simply that it cannot emerge again in exactly the same form. As a matter of fact, if we indicate with the term «fascism» a model of political order characterized by specific assumptions, it can emerge in any time and place, in the presence of the contextual conditions allowing people to select and recombine again those assumptions in a different, and yet recognizable, way. In this article I consider two works by Ignazio Silone, Il fascismo (1934) and La scuola dei dittatori (1938), specifically devoted to fascism and dictator(ship) and their presuppositions, at the aim to show their relevance for rethinking «fascism» in current times.

Keywords: Ignazio Silone – fascism – dictatorship and dictators – (crisis of) democracy and fascism

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