Born in India, raised in Italy and Great Britain, James Strachey Barnes (1890-1955) was Secretary-General of the International Centre of Fascist Studies in Lausanne and a personal friend of Benito Mussolini. In the two books grouped in this volume, Barnes sets out to define the philosophy, the worldview (
Weltanschauung) and the principles underlying fascism in which he sees a return to medieval values and a spiritual and moral revolt against the causes of the modern decay, namely materialism, subjectivism and individualism. A fervent Catholic, he also demonstrates the perfect compatibility of this doctrine with the teaching of the Church. This republication is enriched with a foreword by Roberto Fiore, a founding member of the Third Position movement and current National Secretary of Forza Nuova and President of the Pan-European nationalist political party Alliance for Peace and Freedom.