by boycotts and sabotage, leads inevitably to anarchy. The Fascist
doctrine, enacting justice among the classes in compliance with a
fundamental necessity of modern life, does away with class
self-defense, which, like individual self-defense in the days of
barbarism, is a source of disorder and of civil war.

Having reduced the problem of these terms, only one solution is
possible, the realization of justice among the classes by and through
the state. Centuries ago the state, as the specific organ of justice,
abolished personal self-defense in individual controversies and
substituted for it state justice. The time has now come when class
self-defense also must be replaced by state justice. To facilitate the
change Fascism has created its own syndicalism. The suppression of
class self-defense does not mean the suppression of class defense
which is an inalienable necessity of modern economic life. Class
organization is a fact which cannot be ignored but it must be
controlled, disciplined, and subordinated by the state. The syndicate,
instead of being, as formerly, an organ of extra-legal defense, must
be turned into an organ of legal defense which will become judicial
defense as soon as labor conflicts become a matter of judicial
settlement. Fascism therefore has transformed the syndicate, that old
revolutionary instrument of syndicalistic socialists, into an
instrument of legal defense of the classes both within and without the
law courts. This solution may encounter obstacles in its development;
the obstacles of malevolence, of suspicion of the untried, of
erroneous calculation, etc., but it is destined to triumph even though
it must advance through progressive stages.


Historical Value of the Doctrine of Fascism