Italian Fascism

Fascist party to come to power. Fascism can be described as a “revolutionary form of nationalism” (Griffin, 1991). Mussolini himself said that Fascism is “everything in the state, nothing against the State, nothing outside the state.” Though the ideas associated with Fascism were new and seen as more of a “prototype”, Mussolini was able to use the growing support for the new ideology to his advantage in his accumulation of power. The origins of Italian fascism can be attributed to the…

Benito Mussolini Throughout history, leaders have led their nations through uprisings and downfalls. Some leaders have even turned against their countries by putting their citizens in compromising situations. Benito Mussolini can be seen as a leader who brought many victories to his country. Overtime, this growing power began to affect the ethical decisions he made for his nation. Being greedy, egotistical, and power hungry was a recipe for turmoil. Although Mussolini did many helpful and…

Fascism was founded in Italy by the famous dictator Benito Mussolini. After World War I Italy was angry because despite being on the victorious side they did not benefit from the Treaty of Versailles. Mussolini promised that he would bring Italy glory in the form of a strong government. Instead of bringing a strong government he promised, Mussolini brought a totalitarian form of government. A totalitarian form of government is a government that aims to control the political, economic, social,…

When discussing Italian film it is impossible to shy away from the discussion of Country’s fascist era and the effects it had on cinema at the time. The same could be said about almost anything that was part of Italian culture at the time, the fascist state establishing its totalitarian hold. Women in fascist Italy were arguably the demographic most affected by the new order Mussolini was hoping to create. However, much like the films produced in Italy, women were never openly persecuted,…

Mussolini used violence as a main tactic to help promote his political viewpoint of fascism. Through illegal violence, rather than elections, Fascists controlled government administration and destroyed the offices, newspapers, and cultural and social organizations of the Socialists, trade unions, and peasant leagues (Lyttelton). Socialists had a difficult time reorganizing because of the repeated violence toward local leaders. Large demonstrations, assisted by the police and higher classes, were…

economic independence, leading to a global economy. In contrast, Mussolini had a two-fold approach that involved controlling workers by attacking trade unions and setting targets for Italy. Mussolini abolished a democracy in Italy and led a new militant Fascism movement in 1919. Mussolini launched a series of battles in 1925 that negatively affected their economy. Mussolini’s prime economic aim was to bring Italy’s economy equal to that of France and Great Britain whom were known as great…

In his Doctrine of Fascism, Mussolini attempts to justify Fascism as the way to create a better Italian nation. However, this authoritarian democratic government interferes with the freedom of the citizen. For example, fascism describes the control of both material and spiritual aspects, of which is for the better of the nation. But a higher power that controls every aspect…

The early 1900’s were an era stricken with war, poverty, and dictatorships. Spread across Europe, bombshells boomed, inflation soared, and economies plummeted sending major world powers into political and social misery. While the masses saw the failures of their nations as a terrible turn of events due to poor leadership, others saw it as an opportunity to seize power for themselves under the guise of reform. These men would be the cause of national and worldwide tyranny by the way of effective…

of politics was a vital aspect to Fascist regimes. The rise of fascism within Europe, and especially within Germany, was the epochal transformation during Benjamin’s time and also created a threatening connotation to Benjamin him self’s life as a Jew and as a radical during this time period. This being said, his views on Fascism in his home country are an important resource for people today to evaluate in that the direct relation Fascism had to Benjamin’s life and the real situations he…

Benito Mussolini was an Italian Prime Minister who reigned from 1922 to 1943. His main objective during his reign was to become a dictator with similar ways and beliefs as other proverbial dictators. Mussolini made certain independent decisions which rendered Italy into a dystopian country; a dystopian society is a society powered by fear in which there is a disparity of rights between the government and citizens of the nation. When one analyzes the dystopia in Italy during this era, the three…