''Lo Stato'' (Italian: ''The State'') was a monthly political and finance magazine which existed in the

Fascist Italy Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the ...

between 1930 and 1943. Its subtitle was ''Rivista di scienze politiche e giuridiche''.

History and profile

''Lo Stato'' was started in

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in 1930. Its founders were Ettore Rosboch and

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. Of them the former was a leading economist. The magazine was published first bimonthly, but from 1931 its frequency was switched to monthly. Its major contributors were the Italian economists, including Celestino Arena, Gino Arias, Gino Borgatta,

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, Giuseppe Ugo Papi and

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. eBook: ''Lo Stato'' defined fascism as a dictatorship and

totalitarian regime Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regul ...

which was superior than both

liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

and

communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

. Contributors of the magazine, particularly

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, provided a theory of the totalitarian state. ''Lo Stato'' folded in 1943.

References

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