The permanent revolution: the mythology and the totalitarian time of fascism

Abstract

This essay offers a reflection on the cultural phenomenon of Italian Fascism of the 
1920s and 1930s as a project of modernity. This, beyond political violence and the 
imposition of a supposedly totalitarian regime, contemplated a promise towards the 
future based on the construction of a "new civilization." In this way, some artistic 
works that resort to discursive elements such as myth, strength, corporeality, youth 
and virility, articulated from the fascist conception of time, are analyzed. Thus, despite 
its apparent contradictions by relying on an idealized past, fascism sought to propagate the cultural guidelines of its vision of the world with firm avant-garde desires.