I believe in the legal and social necessity of penalties, for penalties are not made only for delinquents. Penalties are made for all, because their … - Alfredo Rocco

This idea of the state as a force (which as a result of the current general state of ignorance is seen as a German Prussian idea) is plainly a Latin and Italian one. It is directly linked with the intellectual tradition of Rome and was refurbished by Machiavelli’s political philosophy.

Woe betide the Italian people if, while others are engaging in super-imperialism, they do not at least engage in nationalism!

Fascism therefore has transformed the labor union, that old revolutionary instrument of syndicalistic socialists, into an instrument of legal defense of the classes both within and without the law courts. This solution may encounter obstacles in its development (the obstacles of malevolence, of suspicion of the untried, of erroneous calculation, etc.), but it is destined to triumph even though it must advance through progressive stages.