This essay examines the relationship between the Italian Social Movement (MSI) and populism through its anti-tax rhetoric in the 1980s. Focusing on the party’s opposition to fiscal reforms, especially Visentini’s, it shows how the MSI portrayed taxation as evidence of a corrupt party-state oppressing ordinary citizens. While not fully populist, the MSI adopted a semi-populist discourse that anticipated themes central to the crisis of Italy’s First Republic.
Sorgona, G. (2018). The Italian Anti-Tax Protest and Populism. The Italian Social Movement in the 1980s. In Chini C, S. Moroni (a cura di), Populism: A Historiographic Category? (pp. 139-150). CAMBRIDGE : CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING.
The Italian Anti-Tax Protest and Populism. The Italian Social Movement in the 1980s
SORGONA G
2018-01-01
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This essay examines the relationship between the Italian Social Movement (MSI) and populism through its anti-tax rhetoric in the 1980s. Focusing on the party’s opposition to fiscal reforms, especially Visentini’s, it shows how the MSI portrayed taxation as evidence of a corrupt party-state oppressing ordinary citizens. While not fully populist, the MSI adopted a semi-populist discourse that anticipated themes central to the crisis of Italy’s First Republic.
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