.. THE F ASCIS-TI EXPOSED. A YEAR OF FASCIST DOMINATION. The Fascist Government justifies its armed conquest of political power, its use of violence and the risk it incur,red of igniting civil war, by the plea of the urgent necessity ~f restoring the authority of law arid tho State, and of rescuing_ the country from economic and financial conditions approaching utter ruin. · The statistical and historical data and documents compiled in this book are a demonstration of the very contrary of this. They show that never as in this last year, during which Fascism has been in power, has the law been so thrust f1Sidein favour of arbitrary action, the State so subjugated by a _faction, or the nation so split up into two classes, a dominating and a subject class. The country's economic and financial cbrtdition has, on the whole, continued to show the improvement and the slow recovery from the devastation of the war, which had already begun in the preceai.ng years; but had . begun thanks to the energies of the people, not the excesses and extravagances of Fascist domination. As to this latter, one thing is demonstrably true : that the profits of the speculators and the capitalists have increased in proportion as the reward of labour and the small resources of the middle classes have diminished, while these two latter classes have lost all freedom and aJl that is of worth in citizenship. I Biblioteca Gino Bianco J
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