Communist Party USA and struggles" of American history, the party promotes a conception of "Bill of Rights Socialism" that will "guarantee all the freedoms we have won over centuries of struggle and also extend the Bill of Rights to include freedom from unemployment" as well as freedom "from poverty, from illiteracy, and from discrimination and oppression". Reiterating the idea of property rights in socialist society as it is outlined in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's "Communist Manifesto" (1848), the Communist Party emphasizes: Many myths have been propagated about socialism. Contrary to right-wing claims, socialism would not take away the personal private property of
Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals of the government of Benito Mussolini, prominent Italian academic and public intellectuals effected the first, formal effort at defining the cultural aspirations of Italian Fascism. As conference Chairman, the Neo-idealist philosopher Gentile publicly proclaimed the alliance between Culture and Fascism, thereby challenging intellectualist critics who questioned the Fascist régime's cultural respectability. The thesis of the "Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals" bases Fascist revolution upon co-operation between Culture and Politics. As a statement of politico-philosophic principles, the "Manifesto" derived from the "Fascism and Culture" ("Fascismo e cultura") lecture Gentile delivered in the "Freedom and Liberalism" ("Libertà e liberalismo") session of the cultural