Italian Fascism

Italian fascism is reference to the role the Italian women play in everyday life. Italian women are looked upon as floating signifiers because Ernesto Luclau, who is an author, said that the people within this time did not believe that women had any importance. Many people during the fascism era had the concept of “contradictory consciousness”. In this case it meant that the fascism state wanted women to do more because of modern times, but they were stuck in the old ways (). During the post-war period in Italy so many things were going wrong for the country. Because of all the misery that the war caused the New Man and Woman were created within the Italian society. There were so many contradictions in the fascist ideology and because of…

possible. B. Benito Mussolini/Italy (Class notes, Fascist Italy Outline Notes) 1. The war proved costly for the Italians because it costed 148 billion lire. WW1 created domestic confusion as inflation undermined the middle class security, and there was high unemployment/dissatisfication from veterans. 2. People were realizing…

political ideology was named fascism by Mussolini, and according to him, was different than all ideologies before it; he lists in The Doctrine of Fascism ideologies such as socialism and democracy that fascism specifically opposes. Both Mussolini and Hitler rejected most ideologies that came before them, with both changing the systems in place in their respective nations of Italy and Germany. Despite Mussolini incessantly stating that fascism was new, it was not entirely different than the…

theories have often been associated with fascism. In particular, elite theorists such as Pareto and Michels had undeniable ties with the Italian Fascist party and the latter even supported Mussolini. One of the strongest arguments for this association is that elite theories are usually deemed to be anti-socialist and anti-democratic. By rejecting both Marxism and the democratic system, elite theories seem to be advocating for new forms of power, which fascism can easily be seen as the…

Fascism is an authorization and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. The Man who started the fascist idea was mussolini, He was the dictator of italy. fascism is basically an extreme dictatorship. After WWI the governments were weakening. There was a raging up-rate of unemployment and this is what led to un-rest in many of the cities, so much so that many people began to support the communist.. Mussolini suggested an idea to rebuild Italy and recreate the Roman…

Fascism and Nazism are two political ideologies that gained a wide support in the first part of the 20th century. The chronology is as follows: fascism was introduced to the Italians by Benito Mussolini in the period between 1919 and 1945 while Nazism appeared in 1933 and faced a rapid decay with the end of the WW2 in 1945. Ideologically, Nazism and fascism diverged to a big extent and were promoted under different slogans. The founder of the fascist ideology—the Italian dictator Benito…

It is a fact based on his accomplishments and peaceful overthrowing of the government that Mussolini was the greatest leader from 1920 to 1939. Fascism has been a major type of political movement that has been in our media and news for the last 90 years. This term was coined by Benito Mussolini to describe his particular political movement. He started this movement in 1919, the theory behind it was to be able to evolve in response to popular Italian opinion. A strong point of the Mussolini…

collection of interviews for ‘Memory, war and the Italians in Edinburgh: the role of communal myth.’ Mrs M, an Italian living in Edinburgh describes the anti-Italian sentiment and riots when Mussolini, dictator of Italy declared war on Britain and France on 10th of June 1940. This source was written 59 years after the events took place as a result the details could possibly be blurred with the passing of time. As it is a primary source it is biased and selective in nature. Mrs M. states, “I…

Defining Nazi-Soviet Relations by Political Philosophy Communism and Fascism, at one glance, seems to be similar in the philosophy of collectivism and anti-democracy. However, the two philosophies cannot coexist due to the striking differences in loyalty and social roles. Both philosophies agreed on two major ideas that people should blend into their communities and that capitalism was unfair and harmful. However, Communism believes that the people are loyal to their social class, so they are…

In 1972 “The Godfather” premiered in movie theaters across the United States and world. We saw Don Corleone control government officials, movie stars, and others like puppets. The Italian Mafia was running New York which begged the questions, have they always controlled the government? What other decisions have they affected and what about the original mafia in Italy? This paper asks, did the mafia (from its ties to politicians, money, and systems in place) affect the way that Italy’s republic…