Foreign News: Work Guaranteed

What is the essential doctrine of Fascismo? It is direct, constructive, continuous action by the People under the guidance of the State. This gospel of action, dynamic, propulsive, was expounded last week by Signor Benito Mussolini in a great document designed as the ground plan on which the new social order must arise. Fascists hailed the proclamation as their Charter of Labor, as the first magna charta guaranteeing to a people not rights but duties. . . .

Substitute "work" for "duties" and the meaning gradually unfolds. Man does not want to labor; but, since...

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