Lo Stato (Italian: The State) was a monthly political and finance magazine which existed in the Fascist Italy between 1930 and 1943.
[2] The magazine was published first bimonthly, but from 1931 its frequency was switched to monthly.
[1] Its major contributors were the Italian economists, including Celestino Arena, Gino Arias, Gino Borgatta, Giuseppe Bottai, Gustavo Del Vecchio, Giuseppe Ugo Papi and Franco Modigliani.
[3] Lo Stato defined fascism as a dictatorship and totalitarian regime which was superior than both liberalism and communism.
[2] Contributors of the magazine, particularly Carl Schmitt, provided a theory of the totalitarian state.