{"id":8630,"date":"2022-06-01T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/01\/marconi-the-fascist\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:29","slug":"marconi-the-fascist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/01\/marconi-the-fascist\/","title":{"rendered":"Marconi the Fascist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ysLiUvNGdWM?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>For obvious reasons Marconi stories pop up in my news feeds. This morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/south-wales-echo\/20220527\/281590949186995\">an article from Wales<\/a> reminded me of a very dark and disheartening aspect of Marconi&#8217;s life: his fascism and his participation in the persecution of Jews. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>There have been at least <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Marconi-Guglielmo\">14 stories in SolderSmoke<\/a> extolling the technological virtues of Marconi. I even met his daughter Elettra while in Rome and <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/meeting-princess-elettra-marconi.html\">wrote it up for the blog<\/a>. But it is just wrong to sing Marconi&#8217;s praises while ignoring his fascist involvement. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>His fascism wasn&#8217;t even separated from his radio work. He won fascist honors and he won his appointment to Mussolini&#8217;s Academy of Italy <u>because<\/u> of his radio work. Take a look at this quote: <\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_1753110090.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"293\" data-original-width=\"301\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_1753110090.png\" width=\"247\" \/><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>He became President of Mussolini&#8217;s Academy of Italy &#8212; and it was in that position that he participated in the persecution of Jews. He was a member of the Fascist Grand Council.<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>If you have doubts about this, just take a look at the short clip (above) from Marconi&#8217;s 1937 funeral procession. Note the fascist salutes, note Mussolini himself marching in the procession. <\/b><\/div>\n<p><b><br \/>The article from Wales: <br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/south-wales-echo\/20220527\/281590949186995\">https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/south-wales-echo\/20220527\/281590949186995<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>More background here: <br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2002\/mar\/19\/physicalsciences.humanities\"><b>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2002\/mar\/19\/physicalsciences.humanities<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For obvious reasons Marconi stories pop up in my news feeds. This morning an article from Wales reminded me of a very dark and disheartening aspect of Marconi&#8217;s life: his fascism and his participation in the persecution of Jews. There have been at least 14 stories in SolderSmoke extolling the technological virtues of Marconi. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/01\/marconi-the-fascist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marconi the Fascist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,181,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italy","category-marconi-guglielmo","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8632,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions\/8632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}