I wish I had an Italian name. Seriously the dudes name is Benito. Sounds pretty cool to me.
Anyway I digress. So when Prof. Dietz said that Fascism is ultra-conservative, she was dead on the money. The whole emphasis on the State being the epitome of life seems to be the central idea Mussolini is proposing as the "ideology of the future". The denial of the other prominent state driven ideologies of the time is essential to why the Fascism gained steam in the early twentieth century. Growing nationalist spirit combined with the economic depression led people to this idea that if you put all of your faith in the State you will be rewarded with a prosperous time for your nation.
Capitalism is still a central idea of the fascists. The exception that makes it fit into the system is that you are not producing for personal gain, rather for that of the goodwill of the State. Hard work for the State is emphasized as a goal that every Italian should strive to achieve.
This ideology might have found prominence if the leaders of the revolutions behind the ideas did not use excessive force and underground activities to usurp power of the state and thus alienating themselves from a broad portion of the mainstream populous.
The Muss should have thought about that before he had his blackshirts march on Rome.
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What exactly do you mean in the last paragraph before you refer to Benito as "The Muss" (that's hilarious by the way)? Are referring to Mussolini, or revolutionaries against the Fascist regime when you talk about usurping the state?
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