The authority of the State was not a product, but a presupposition. It could not depend on the people, in fact, the people depended on the State... The Fascist state, on the other hand, is a popular state, and, in that sense, a democratic State par excellence... Every citizen shares a relationship with the State and is so intimate that the State exists only in so far as it is made to exist by the citizen. (Giovanni Gentile)

The authority of the State was not a product, but a presupposition. It could not depend on the people, in fact, the people depended on the State... The Fascist state, on the other hand, is a popular state, and, in that sense, a democratic State par excellence... Every citizen shares a relationship with the State and is so intimate that the State exists only in so far as it is made to exist by the citizen.

Giovanni Gentile

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