She has affirmed that Leni Riefenstahl’s work is aesthetically pleasing‚ however‚ the film is a fascist propaganda film that is built upon the political ideologies of Hitler. She explains that Riefenstahl is an “…apolitical artist whose work was used by others for political means” (Sontag‚ 1976p. 35). She is stating that Hitler ultimately sought out
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true. There is a wide difference between dictatorship and pure totalitarianism. Totalitarianism encompasses all the social concepts of life. It was first introduced by the Weimar Jurists of German in the 1920s. Carl Schmitt and some other German Fascists later adopted the concept. During his time‚ Carl coined the world Totalstaat to refer to an all-powerful state in his legal frameworks. The term was then adopted by Giovanni Gentile- a German philosopher (Bigelow‚ et al). By definition‚ the concept
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ministers‚ with 29 people taking charge between 1870 and 1922. This high turnover strengthened the belief that people only took over in order to gain social power and money‚ rather than for the good of Italy. All of this made it much easier for the Fascists to gain support as they promised to work for the good of Italy and fix all the problems caused by the liberal state. Fear of a socialist takeover was one of the major factors that enabled Mussolini to gain power in Italy. As Italy was going downhill
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rule and supreme leader. Both leaders’ parties had a significant role in gaining the power over the country. Mussolini had founded the Fascist Party in 1919 meanwhile Hitler had joined the National Socialist German Workers’ Party‚ called Nazi for short also in 1919. As economic conditions worsened in Italy‚ Mussolini’s popularity rapidly increased. Groups of Fascists wearing black shirts attacked Communists and Socialists on the streets. Because Mussolini played on the fear of a workers’ revolt‚ he
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He took advantage of this fact and also the fact that he was extremely famous‚ to make a few political statements‚ statements that would go down in history. 1936 saw the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Fascist revolutionaries‚ led by Francisco Franco took hold of Spain and imposed a fascist dictatorship upon the
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philosophy‚ encompassing morality and aesthetics‚ logic and science‚ politics and metaphysics. Aristotle believed that human beings are “featherless bipeds”. This has to do with his theory of politics because Aristotle’s view on politics is essentially fascist. I personally don’t agree with Aristotle on the fact that he thinks most human beings are just featherless birds who can be forced into slavery so that the philosophers can sit around doing nothing but arguing all day. A better theory of society
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During the time of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome‚ Open City (1945)‚ Rome was open to overbearing Nazis‚ complying Fascists‚ and the daring Resistance. Conforming to the Fascist regime or joining the Resistance were the only two viable political options Italians had during the time of Nazi occupation. Rossellini uses the illustration of two diverse wartime women and their drawn-out relationships to depict these two polar Italian political sentiments during WWII. Marina Mari‚ who is associated with Fascism
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government. Benito Mussolini was the son of a socialist blacksmith and a teacher. He promised to end corruption and replace turmoil with order. he rejected socialism for intense nationalism. He organized the Fascist party which consisted of veterans and discontented Italians. Fascist gangs used intimidation and terror to enforce order because they had lost faith in a constitutional government. He favored business leaders‚ wealthy landowners and the lower middle class. He brought the economy under
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play The Accidental Death of an Anarchist in a comical manner‚ the Italian fascist government of 1970 would have censored it. Dario Fo surely knew that if his play was more direct and aggressive‚ the play would have been censored and he would have paid the consequences. The Accidental Death of an Anarchist surely served as political tool‚ not only because it denounced the so called “strategy of tension” used by the fascist government. Dario Fo has succeeded in his objective to inform the world about
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their power and control within their countries. Football was attractive to European dictators as it endorsed nationalism‚ support and patriotism when victories were made on the field. Both Mussolini and Franco abused Football as a sport for their fascist regimes and propaganda. Thus‚ both dictators were the most powerful dictators in European
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