The birth of the Fascist movement can be traced to a meeting Mussolini held in the Piazza San Sepolcho in Milan Italy on March 23, 1919. This meeting declared the original principles of the Fascists through a series of declarations.

Anti-fascist Spanish poster.

Further reading

• The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) by Wilhelm Reich
• The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) by Hannah Arendt
• Fascinating Fascism (1975), an essay by Susan Sontag
• Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism (2002) by Catherine Laura Frost
• The Seduction of Unreason (2004) by Richard Wolin