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In an interesting article published last year in our Press, Ettore Ciccotti shows that Italian Fascismo does not represent an absolutely new political event, but is part of the general historic development of nations. In the first years )f its appearance it was compared to the "krypteia" of >parta, to the " eterie " of Athens, and to similar phenomena, rhich are repeated as a manifestation of self-defence of trong and active groups or classes, uniting and forming mtres of resistance; exercising thus, by their extended: tion, general functions of State in a period in which its >rotection is weak or inefficient, and shows signs of disintegration or degeneration. Other examples of this pheno-lenon can be found in the history of the Church and in ie Italian Communes, in England, Germany, in the Clubs >f the French Revolution, and in the rest of Europe. When a nation which shows such signs this form of vitality does lot exist, we witness the general collapse of that nation, in Russia at this moment, where only the radical uproot-lg of Bolshevism might lead to the general resurrection of the country...