“Marciare e marcire”. A “dekaptych” of the marches proliferating from the events and non-events of 27-31 October in Rome
Journal title MONDO CONTEMPORANEO
Author/s Roger Griffin
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2023/2-3
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 19-36 File size 279 KB
DOI 10.3280/MON2023-002003
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This article proposes a multifaceted, “cubofuturist” perspective on the March on Rome which contrasts the messy and chaotic events of late October 1922 in Rome with their propagandistic transformation into the Foundation Myth of the eventual regime. It touches on the centrality of the palingenetic myth which made the 28 October (when little actually happened) into the symbolic moment where Italy was reborn; the mythopoeic, Sorelian, modernist, counterfactual and archetypal nature of this myth and the extensive facticity and fake substantiality it acquired in the minds of Fascists; and the continuing legacy and mythic resonance of the March on Rome in the election of Giorgia Meloni. It ends with some thoughts on the pathology of marching in the context of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and the growing importance of at least figuratively joining a healthy palingenetic march, given the disintegrating state of the world.
Keywords: Futurist politics, Sorelian myth, palingenesis, the primacy of mythopoeia, march as an archetype
Roger Griffin, “Marciare e marcire”. A “dekaptych” of the marches proliferating from the events and non-events of 27-31 October in Rome in "MONDO CONTEMPORANEO" 2-3/2023, pp 19-36, DOI: 10.3280/MON2023-002003