Benito Mussolini

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Benito Mussolini

[Category]:

Social Issues

[Paper Title]:

Benito Mussolini - Rise to Power, Fall From Power

[Text]:

With pounding fists and brutal charisma, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) invoked
the myth of a new Roman Empire...and made himself its Caesar. The father of
Italian Fascism, Mussolini seized power through a potent combination of terror
and persuasion. Promising glory while crushing his enemies, he held Italy firmly
in his grasp from 1922 to 1943.

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, named after the left-wing Mexican
revolutionary Benito Juarez as well as two Italian revolutionaries, was born in
Predappio on July 29, 1883, as the son of a socialist blacksmith (1). He grew up
to be a self-proclaimed “anti-patriot,” a socialist like his father. He
became an elementary school teacher in 1901, and immigrated to Switzerland to
avoid being enlisted in the war in 1902. During this period, he was influenced
by the writings of Nietzsche, Hegel, and Karl Marx (2). It was in Switzerland
that Mussolini was arrested for vagrancy, and expelled back to Italy to finally
perform his required military service (3). After being wounded in the trenches,
he was sent home on crutches, only to become the editor of his own newspaper,
called IL Popolo d’Italia (or The People of Italy) after changing his pacifist
views and being dismissed by the Socialist Party. He used his newspaper to
spread his new ideas and gain support. He also organized a pro-war group called
Fasci d’Azione Rivoluzionaria. After the war, Mussolini joined a different
group called the Arditi Association, a military assembly composed of World War I
veterans. Both associations contributed to the beginning of fascism (4).

On March 23, 1919, Mussolini founded the Fasci de Combattimento, the skeletal
structure for what was to become the organized political movement of Fascism
(5). This anti-socialist activity attracted support from the people of the
lower-middle class with its nationalistic, anti-liberal ideals. During the
1920s, fascism spread into the Italian countryside. It was there that the Black
Shirt Militia arose. This militia was formed to rid Italy of all socialist
groups, in order for fascism to rise. The group would torture Socialists by
forcing them to drink castor oil and swallow live frogs (6).

Mussolini then began to slowly break away from the Arditi Association as his
Fascist movement became more powerful. At first, the Fascist Party failed during
the 1919 elections, but they ...

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