The myth of hierarchical brotherhood in fascism interventionist and Africanism. The aristocrats of "combatentismo"

Abstract

With this work we propose to analyze how the great war was the spark that contributed to create the cultural, political, sociological and social conditions for the birth and succesive evolution of fascism. Infact, in those years the most extremist interventionist groups elaborated a social conception that we have called the hierarchical broterwood based on the absolutizacion of politics and the extension of the military logic to civilian life. In the same way, we propose to investigate how Morocco in the words of Ortega y Gasset "made the dispersed soul of spanish army and especially of its hard core (the africanist) a closed first morally ready for the attack". In fact, when the civil war began, the africanist generals came to believe thatthey had the capacity to interprete the national will and transferred the values of the colonial Army to the rebel army as a whole.