Why Did Benito Mussolini Rise To Power Italy
1. After the First World War, Italy was left in a turbulent state. The people were angry, the powers in charge were unsatisfactory, and the world was changing. This discontent led to the rise of Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Party, who took control of the Italian state and implemented a new regime that the world had never seen before. Possibly the world’s first totalitarian government, Mussolini was able to take complete control of Italy and its people. The Fascist ideology was the epitome everything that the Italian people were. But how was Mussolini able to manipulate and command the Italian people into going along with his vision of Italy? And what role did nationalism, as Mussolini saw it, play in this take over? Mussolini took the
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3. Before Benito Mussolini was able to rise to power Italy was ruled by King Vittorio Emanuele III since 1900, but he was not a beloved king. The citizens of Italy were dissatisfied with his leadership, and played a mostly figure-head role in governing, while the true ruling was done by Giovanni Giolitti during the time of 1900-1914. He began a period of intense reform and anti-authoritarian attitude. With the turning of the century, a wave nationalism swept through Italy …show more content…
He states that a “common tradition and a mission” (pg. 222) unites a nation. He makes it abundantly clear that he (theoretically) includes every individual in his idea of the nation. The individuals make up the nation, so for the good of the nation everyone is included, “no individuals or groups… [are] outside the state” (pg. 224). Fascism opposes such societies that extradite such minority individuals that say the majority makes up the nation, but does concede that certain people must be grouped together to properly function within the nation, but that is where Mussolini differs in his national views than other such “form[s] of democracy” (pg. 224). Mussolini says that the individual should be grouped by their interests to form classes, and to form unions which then forms the whole of the nation itself. This is how he includes everyone into his view of the state: everyone has a purpose and everyone is essential to the running’s and workings of the
3. Before Benito Mussolini was able to rise to power Italy was ruled by King Vittorio Emanuele III since 1900, but he was not a beloved king. The citizens of Italy were dissatisfied with his leadership, and played a mostly figure-head role in governing, while the true ruling was done by Giovanni Giolitti during the time of 1900-1914. He began a period of intense reform and anti-authoritarian attitude. With the turning of the century, a wave nationalism swept through Italy …show more content…
He states that a “common tradition and a mission” (pg. 222) unites a nation. He makes it abundantly clear that he (theoretically) includes every individual in his idea of the nation. The individuals make up the nation, so for the good of the nation everyone is included, “no individuals or groups… [are] outside the state” (pg. 224). Fascism opposes such societies that extradite such minority individuals that say the majority makes up the nation, but does concede that certain people must be grouped together to properly function within the nation, but that is where Mussolini differs in his national views than other such “form[s] of democracy” (pg. 224). Mussolini says that the individual should be grouped by their interests to form classes, and to form unions which then forms the whole of the nation itself. This is how he includes everyone into his view of the state: everyone has a purpose and everyone is essential to the running’s and workings of the