Nicola, (also Nicolò) Bombacci (24 October 1879 – 28 April 1945), born at Civitella di Romagna, was an Italian Marxist socialist who was a member of the Italian Socialist Party in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A friend and disciple of Lenin, in 1921 he became one of the founding fathers of the Italian Communist Party[1]. Bombacci was a friend of future Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Bombacci tried to help Mussolini legitimize the Italian Social Republic and relegitimize Italian Fascism after Mussolini was ousted as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy.[2]
He was the author of the economic theory of socialization in the 1943.
Bombacci was shot on 28 April 1945 at Dongo (CO) where he had been captured along with Mussolini by Italian communist partisans. After his murder, he was hung upside down at Piazzale Loreto in a public display, along with Mussolini, his lover Clara Petacci, the head of the Republican Fascist Party Alessandro Pavolini, and others.[3]