Statolatry, which combines idolatry with the state, first appeared in Giovanni Gentile's Doctrine of Fascism, published in 1931 under Mussolini's name. The same year, an encyclical by Pope Pius XI criticized Fascist Italy as developing "a pagan worship of the state" which it called "statolatry". Ludwig von Mises' Omnipotent Government (1944) The term was also popularized and explained by Ludwig von Mises in his 1944 work Omnipotent Government. Statolatry's literally worship of the State analog… (More on Statolatry)