Analysing the Factors That Prompted the Growth of Fascism in Italy by 1922

Overall, the fascist experiment in Italy was a failure. Benito Mussolini aimed to make the world safe for the middle class, small business owners, property owners, and people in the agricultural area. Through this, Mussolini gained support of the majority of the population. There is no doubt that most of the support was actually the work of propaganda and rhetoric rather than the ‘real thing'. The government made desperate attempts to significantly increase the birthrate in Italy. In 1927, Mussolini launched the "Battle for births". The task of young women was to get married quickly and have a lot of children. And the more children they get, the more benefits they get from the government. Mussolini's population policy failed to produce

In the years after the chaotic “war to end all wars”, fascism rose in Europe as a cause of economic and political stress. Fascism is a form of government led by a dictator who had complete control over the country. At the time, it was intriguing, since governments seemed to collapse as a result of opposing ideals. In Germany, the Weimar system was ineffective due to the different parties in the Reichstag. Germans were not ruled by laws but by orders issued by the president. Italy was also struggling for control, adding to the political turmoil. Due to the world war, there was an economic crisis that led to hyperinflation in Germany. During the inter-war years, fascism appealed to Germans and Italians due to promises of improving the economy, military strength, and the government.

Fascism came to power in Italy in 1922 due to a number of different factors. The roots of fascism can be found in the failure of a whole political class and system to resist authoritarianism and it was a start of a big mistake made by the Italian government, even though allot of people thought Mussolini forced his way into power, in actual fact he was invited into parliament by an incompetent and underestimating liberal party (Giolitti) who formed a coalition with the fascists party in 1921 'the national block'. During the time the fascists came to power there was many post war problems such as political polarization, the melt down of public beliefs in the government, extreme

The Importance of the Economic Factors in the Rise to Power of the Fascist Party in Italy

Benito Mussolini, an Italian Politician and the leader of The National Fascist Party, had his views and ideologies solely set on the practice and lifestyle of a fascist. The rise of fascism and Mussolini's political takeover occurred as a result of Italy’s scrambling economy, plagued with riots, inflation and unemployment. Mussolini argued fascism as the most beneficial political party for Italy and claims it was based off of concepts of holiness and heroism. As the popularity with Mussolini's new political party grew, so did his dissatisfaction with opposing parties, such as pacifism, socialism and liberal democracy.

Post World War I Italy and Germany fell on hard times economically as did everyone else. The problems that arose within their governments helped Fascist gain power. The idea of everyone coming together under one ruler, one party, and as one nation appealed most to people because of its sense of nationalism.

Totalitarianism refers to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. Despite the common association between fascism and totalitarianism, and attempts by the Italian state to implement fascism in theory, in practice Italian fascism did not show the signs required of a totalitarian state.

Fascism is a term used by Benito Mussolini when he was leader of Italy in the 1930’s. Germany not long after started using the term when Hitler took over full power in the 1930’s. Democracy, Individual Rights, and Freedom was something that the Fascists did not want in their country. They wanted to dominate other nations in the world. They believed that if they set goals and stay obedient then they will be able to create a very powerful state.

The Fascists’ social and economic policies up to 1939 significantly aided their control over Italy yet may not be cited as the sole cause. The Fascist party’s social and economic policies along with other factors attributed to the overall control of Italy. Through such policies it was a certainty that the Fascist party would hold complete power over the population of Italy in each aspect of an individual’s life whether it was their leisure time through the Dopolavoro or at work under the corporate state system which was formally introduced in 1934. This complete domination of the Italian peoples’ lives could be argued to have been the instrumental factor behind the Fascists’ control over Italy up to 1939. Other factors which assisted the

     Fascism is the philosophy that exercises a dictatorship through the use of violence. There are two main areas fascism deals with. An elitist approach that makes the peoples' will on a select group with a supreme leader who governs all. The other approach is the populist approach in which the government wishes to have all its people act out against the government's oppressors. (Baradat) Fascism came from the word fasces, a bundle of sticks that were bound to an ax, which was supposed to represent "civic unity and the authority of the Roman officials to punish wrongdoers," (www.funkandwagnall.com)

even though they were a part of the war, so were the allies, yet they

In the excerpt on the nature of Fascism by Benito Mussolini, Mussolini summarizes several critical characteristics on his ideal political philosophy, Fascism. First off I will begin with, what is Fascism? The principle of Fascism conveys a nation where the vagueness of a person to live a life of self-centered and brief pleasure is conquered by a proper law. Basically, Fascism tries to initiate a state where the people do not live individually; it creates for the state to control. Mussolini outlines his idea of the Fascism philosophy and describes the main concepts that it will attend to when it becomes the commanding political system in Italy.

Before Fascist Italy and World War II, the concept of Neorealism was not yet developed, because Italy had never suffered a huge change to its normalcy status, until Benito Mussolini rose to power and adjusted Italy to his convenience. Henceforth, in the nineteenth century, Italy´s cinema main subject of matter was realism due to the fact that this movement of film and literature did not approve one´s own expressions or did not appreciate the beauty of the art. At the same time, the French developed a new theme called Naturalism, which invoked realism to its ultimate level. On the other hand, Neorealism was founded after the fall of Fascism. Italy´s cinema took a huge advantage of this era and developed movies based on the true events that left Italy after Fascism.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Italy became divided, barely remaining a nation at all, and watched as others, such as Britain and France, grew stronger and stronger by greedily imperializing other areas. The terrorizing display of power by these other nations did not encourage Italy to try and do the same, but virtually forced them to if they wanted to sustain their status as a global power. Thus, Italy united itself completely in 1870, proceeding to build up an army to try and make a grab for land in Africa to establish itself as an imperial power. Unfortunately, when Italy invaded Ethiopia, they were brutally defeated, and the nation truly became a shell of what it used to be. When World War I broke out in the early 20th century, Italy decided to participate in it, which drained the country’s remaining funds and depleted resources. When Italian leaders attended the peace treaty negotiation after the war, they were unable to accomplish the main goal of regaining their land, angering the people and setting the stage for an ambitious young man named Benito Mussolini to rise to power and establish the National Fascist Party, a dictatorship that promoted an intense Italian nationalism. Through a detailed examination of the history of Italy, Mishra reveals how “globalization, while promoting integration among shrewd elites, incites political and cultural sectarianism everywhere else, especially among people forced against their will into universal competition” (Mishra 334). Under Mussolini’s leadership, Italy “sought to avenge their setbacks and humiliations”, fighting on the side of Nazi Germany and Japan in World War II, contributing to the killing and terrorizing of millions upon millions of innocent people

1870 is a year to remember in Italian history: indeed, on 20 September 1870, the Italian army marched into Rome and captured the city, completing the unification process begun by Garibaldi and his Thousand in Sicily ten years earlier, in 1860.