Sergio Panunzio was born on 20 July 1886 in
Molfetta, Italy. He started his political involvement young by associating with syndicalist circles in 1902. From the
University of Naples, he obtained two degrees, in
jurisprudence in 1908 and in
philosophy in 1911.
Career
Panunzio became the head of the Fascist Faculty of Political Sciences at
Perugia University in 1928.
Panunzio criticized the
Soviet state as a "dictatorship over the proletariat, and not of the proletariat". He is quoted as saying, "
Moscow bows before the light radiating from
Rome. The
Communist International no longer speaks to the spirit; it is dead." He opposed the
anti-Semitic campaign of 1938. A strong supporter of the state for its own sake, he had a long-running academic dispute with the
corporatistCarlo Costamagna regarding the role of fascism.[2]
Death
Panunzio died on 8 October 1944.
Works
La Persistenza del Diritto (Discutendo di Sindacalismo e di Anarchismo) [The Persistence of the Right (A Discussion about Syndicalism and Anarchism)] (
Pescara:
Casa Editrice Abruzzese, 1909).
Diritto, forza e violenza; lineamenti di una teoria della violenza. Con prefazione di R. Mondolfo (Bologna, L. Cappelli, 1921)
Italo Balbo (Milano, Imperia, 1923)
Stato nazionale e sindacati (
Milan: Imperia, 1924)