“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
― Upton Sinclair
― Upton Sinclair
Mussolini and Italian Fascism
- The founder of Fascism
- Blackshirts - paramilitary force
- Comes to power in 1923 after the March on Rome with the help of his paramilitary force (private army belongs to a political party)
- King Emmanuel III refused allowing Mussolini coming in power
Fascism
- Non-Democratic
- one leader (totalitaran dictatorship)
- censorship of the media (both Russian communism and Fascism)
Il Duce (The Leader)
- Acerbo Law - the party with the most amount of seats would get 2/3 of seats in the Chamber of Deputies
- this allowed laws to automatically pass
- Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist leader, was murdered for speaking against the Fascists in public
- By 1926, anti-fascist parties were eliminiated
The Lateran Accords, 1929
- The Catholic Church was the most powerful in Italy and Mussolini needed their support
- Mussolini gave the church:
- control over religious education
- recognition as the state religion
- Pope's own state - Vatican City State
- Church recognized Mussolini as the leader
Summary
Mussolini was the founder of Fascism. He used his paramilitary force, Black shirts to come to power in 1923 after the March on Rome. He came up with the Acerbo Law which allowed whoever won the most seats to have 2/3 of the seats. Unlike Hitler, Mussolini had to deal with the Church in Italy. So the Lateran Accords were made to give the Church control over some certain stuff while the church recognizing Mussolini as the leader.