General Theory of the Fascist State

General Theory of the Fascist State by Sergio Panunzio advances the doctrine of the Fascist State based on lecture notes from university courses he gave at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Rome beginning in 1928. First published in 1937-XV under the title of Teoria generale dello Stato fascista, it represents the summa of his political and juridical thought with respect to the Fascist State.

In the authorʼs own words: "It must be noted here that the Theory of the Fascist State, insofar as a study of the particular and original institutions of the new State, rests on three points: Syndicates, Corporations, and Party. Thus, the general Theory of the Fascist State, strictly speaking, in order to embrace the entire Fascist State, encompasses three distinct theories: the general theory of the Syndicate; the general theory of the Corporation; the general theory of the Party."

Sergio Panunzio (AD 1886-1944) was an Italian jurist, publicist, philosopher, journalist and professor. One of the major exponents of revolutionary syndicalism, he became, after the Great War, one of the most important theoreticians of Italian Fascism. What Giovanni Gentile had done for Fascism on the philosophical level, Panunzio did on the juridical.