Fascism sees in the world
not only those superficial, material aspects
in which man appears as an individual, standing by
himself, self-centered, subject to natural law, which
instinctively urges him toward a life of selfish
momentary pleasure;
it sees not only the
individual but the nation and the country;
individuals and generations bound together by a
moral law, with common traditions and a mission
which suppressing the instinct for life closed in a
brief circle of pleasure, builds up a higher life,
founded on duty, a life free from the limitations of
time and space
, in which the individual, by self-sacrifice,
the renunciation of self-interest, by death
itself, can achieve that purely spiritual existence in
which his value as a man consists."
That is a quote from Mussolini's Doctrine of Fascism and resembles what many canonized Saints have said. The Mussolini I venerate is
the Il Duce who has achieved this purely spiritual existence that he writes about. The goal of the fascist is to die, for only death can achieve the existence of a pure spirit that isn’t limited by the flesh.
He seems now to be comparing his old life in the flesh to that of a grounded caterpillar, and his current life as a purely spiritual existence to that of a butterfly.
Mussolini hung upside down. And so he brings butterfly Fascism
, a new creation that doesn’t resemble the other, that soars to the heights of spiritual perfection.
The Mussolini I venerate is the Il Duce who has achieved this purely spiritual existence. The goal of the fascist is to die, for only death can achieve the existence of a pure spirit that isn’t limited by the flesh. One day a
caterpillar hangs upside down. An ugly death, melting, and remolding takes place before it can fly. First it hangs upside down. The caterpillar Il Duce hung upside down to
symbolize this transformation into a new creation, a purely spiritual existence (Emperor butterfly).
People mocked him shouting “You who would rebuild the Roman Empire”, and that is precisely what he was and is in the process of doing.
He wants to teach people that they can win through failure, defeat, humiliation, death, and desecration. He wants to show us what can take place after purely spiritual existence is accomplished. This spiritual existence is glorified by Mussolini's Doctrine, an existence that is only possible with death.