Benito Mussolini, an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers, breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci di Combattimento, named after the Italian peasant revolutionaries, or “Fighting Bands,” from the 19th century. Commonly known as the Fascist Party, Mussolini’s new right-wing organization advocated Italian nationalism, had black shirts for uniforms, and launched a program of terrorism and intimidation against its leftist opponents.
In October 1922, Mussolini led the Fascists on a march on Rome, and King Emmanuel III, who had little faith in Italy’s parliamentary government, asked Mussolini to form a new government. Initially, Mussolini, who was appointed prime minister at the head of a three-member Fascist cabinet, cooperated with the Italian parliament, but aided by his brutal police organization he soon became the effective dictator of Italy. In 1924, a Socialist backlash was suppressed, and in January 1925 a Fascist state was officially proclaimed, with Mussolini as Il Duce, or “The Leader.”
Mussolini appealed to Italy’s former Western allies for new treaties, but his brutal 1935 invasion of Ethiopia ended all hope of alliance with the Western democracies. In 1936, Mussolini joined Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in his support of Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War, prompting the signing of a treaty of cooperation in foreign policy between Italy and Nazi Germany in 1937. Although Adolf Hitler’s Nazi revolution was modeled after the rise of Mussolini and the Italian Fascist Party, Fascist Italy and Il Duce proved overwhelmingly the weaker partner in the Berlin-Rome Axis during World War II.
In July 1943, the failure of the Italian war effort and the imminent invasion of the Italian mainland by the Allies led to a rebellion within the Fascist Party. Two days after the fall of Palermo on July 24, the Fascist Grand Council rejected the policy dictated by Hitler through Mussolini, and on July 25 Il Duce was arrested. Fascist Marshal Pietro Badoglio took over the reins of the Italian government, and in September Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Eight days later, German commandos freed Mussolini from his prison in the Abruzzi Mountains, and he was later made the puppet leader of German-controlled northern Italy. With the collapse of Nazi Germany in April 1945, Mussolini was captured by Italian partisans and on April 29 was executed by firing squad with his mistress, Clara Petacci, after a brief court-martial. Their bodies, brought to Milan, were hanged by the feet in a public square for all the world to see.
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We fought on the wrong side in WW II. Fascism and national Socialism, while anathema to most Libertarians and traditional Western “liberals,” are the only modern ideologies EVER to repel Communism/Bolshevism, at least temporarily. Much like Russia today, the AXIS powers were driven to war. Japan, for energy resources we starved them for, and Germany by Bolsheviks in Poland, killing ethnic Germans, dispossessed and cut off by the Rothschild written, Treaty of Versailles. As a Boomer, I have been able to peel back the 60+ years of Leftist/Jewish indoctrination spewed by their victorious MSM, I and many others are realizing the world is currently run and owned by the most oft-expelled, and usurious people in 4000+ years of recorded history. They call themselves our greatest ally, while spying on us, blowing up our buildings, and treating our people like masked cattle. Just like The Talmud says they should.
The merger of state power and big business (how Mussolini defined fascism) has been the foundation of the US since its beginning, and pretty much is the foundation of every government on earth.
The Rockefellers established fascism here in America long before that. They just disguised it.
You and L are confusing Oligarchy with Fascism.
Once again for the products of our public school system, here is Mr. Benito Mussolini’s definition of Fascism.
First an excerpt.
Thus many of the practical expressions of Fascism
such as party organization, system of education,
and discipline can only be understood when
considered in relation to its general attitude toward
life. A spiritual attitude. Fascism sees in the world
not only those superficial, material aspects
in which man appears as an individual, standing by
himself, self-centered, subject to natural law, which
instinctively urges him toward a life of selfish
momentary pleasure; it sees not only the
individual but the nation and the country;
individuals and generations bound together by a
moral law, with common traditions and a mission
which suppressing the instinct for life closed in a
brief circle of pleasure, builds up a higher life,
founded on duty, a life free from the limitations of
time and space, in which the individual, by selfsacrifice, the renunciation of self-interest, by death
itself, can achieve that purely spiritual existence in
which his value as a man consists.
The conception is therefore a spiritual one, arising
from the general reaction of the century against the
materialistic positivism of the 19th century. Antipositivistic but positive; neither skeptical nor
agnostic; neither pessimistic nor supinely optimistic
as are, generally speaking, the doctrines (all
negative) which place the center of life outside man;
https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf
The silence is deafening.
“A spiritual attitude.” This is the oft ignored aspect of both fascism and NS. They were just ahead of their time. The Iranian revolution was and continues to be successful in spite of western sanctions (and the 8 year war using Iraq as a proxy) because it is a spiritual movement. Russia’s renaissance under VVP is also spiritual.