Mussolini and Italian Fascism
- Founder of Fascism
- Used blackshirts as a paramilitary force
- comes to power in 1923 in after the march on Rome
- King Emmanuel III refused to sign an emergency legislation to prevent it - he refused allowing Mussolini to come to power.
- Private ownership encouraged and aided by the gov"t
- Censorship of the media
- Imperialistic
- Militaristic
- Non democratic
- Often totalitarian dictatorship
- "Anti-liberal, anti-mass democracy, anti-socialist"
- Acerbo Law - Forced through parliament guaranteed that the party with the most votes
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
- Mussolini
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