La “scoperta dell’America” e l’altro ’68 : il M.S.I. tra identità neofascista e il sogno di una destra mondiale anticomunista

Abstract

This essay reassesses 1968 from the perspective of the Italian Social Movement, shifting attention from student protest to the neo-fascist right’s response to global conservatism. Focusing on MSI support for Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign, it shows how party figures tried to turn Atlantic anti-communism into a project for international legitimation and a “world right.” The attempt exposed the gap between democratic repositioning, neo-fascist identity and the limits of conservative transnational alliances, foreshadowing later tensions within the Italian right during the 1970s.