Why Did Italy Become Fascist? | The Rise of Mussolini Explained

Theres one group of people who hates leftists more than fascists. that group is leftists. We could be living in star trek right now if it werent for leftist infighting.

Who else is back here because of world history class with Mr griffin? 🙋‍♂️

Fascism was the second deadly? Yeah? Who did the Italians kill?
Stamped out? The word was stamped out.

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Seems like Italians still like facism

Subtly created presentation ...

pretends to be a factual, non biased view of what makes a Fascist ...

Then spins it to apply to an entertainer, all the while ..

excluding Trump, Putin, and the whole MAGA cult, the real culprits.

This is pure propaganda ...
Disguised as a Ted Talk presentation.

There's always two sides in every story and unfortunately our Zionist media only tells us one side and make the other side always look like a bad guy.

by all measures, liberals/democrats have been, and are the most voilent and warmongering idealogy, democracy cant exist in peace.

*Why Did Italy Become Fascist the First Time.

Fixed. (Sono una cittadina italiana.)

“Italians who had come to despise him” (Jewish communists)

Ridiculous bias. Poor effort.

National socialist isnt Fascist

PIZZA TIME STARTS WITH AXE !!!
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What historians often don't include when describing Mussolini is that he was quite a stable genius.

"Overestimated the danger of the socialists." Sure, comrade.

bla, bla, bla...which money has fascism, Hitler etc created?

Thanks. Nice history.

There is no such thing as "fascist thinking. "

Fashism is an economic system that differs from others in its treatment of property rights.


Like every bad student, the author dumps on you all the facts he knows, no matter how irrelevent they are.


There is nothing more ridiculous that speaking nonsense with the English stiff upper lip.

Trump aka the tangerine toddler is going bring fascim back to America if he gets back in the oval office

Fascism is left

"Second most deadly idealogy in the 20th century" you're a westoid

red flags all over this, calling fascism the 2nd most dangerous ideology is a gross oversimplification of the time period, and then to say fascism has roots in Marxism? Blatant misinformation

Fascism is far from stamped out. It now comes with a "Made in USA" sticker

Thanks. 👍

Because he was Ricardo Milos, nobody can resist Ricardo Milos

"Grazi". Can't believe it

At around the six min mark you mention that Mussolini had to let go of some of his remaining socialist ideas to get support. The graphic has “no king! And no church!” Crossed out. What were some of the early sentiments he let go of exactly? Did he have a time when he believed in abolition of the monarchy and turning to a republic?

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VIVA IL DUCE

Very nice. Even more interesting is the period during WWII when Italians had just about enough of Il Duce. Civil War broke out in 1943 and Italians fought and defeated both fascists and nazis. Mussolini was executed two days before Hitler committed suicide.

Mussolini wasn’t a guy with evil intentions. He just made the mistake of allying himself with Hitler. Mussolini had grave reservations concerning the rise of German military power in Central Europe. In fact, like the First World War, Mussolini had sought to work with Britain and France to stabilize Europe when it appeared that Germany might seek redress for real or fancied past grievances. The problem was that, in general, neither the British nor the French seemed prepared to act decisively in the face of increasing German provocation. They were allowed to proceed with little reaction from London or Paris.

Furthermore, in a world controlled by the advanced industrial “plutocracies,” it seems clear that Mussolini did not expect the colonial powers to object to his war in Ethiopia. Retrograde Italy was sanctioned by the League of Nations. The advanced industrial powers controlled more than 43 Million square miles, or 84.4% of the Earth’s surface. Mussolini believed that as a late-comer to imperialism he would be allowed to secure Ethiopia, a region considered rich in industrial resources that Italy needed for their revolutionary program. Mussolini even issued 2 laws in 1935 and April 1936 to end slavery in Ethiopia. During its brief colonial presence, Mussolini freed 420,000 slaves.

Italy as a proletarian nation, were hostages to those who would provide them coal; hostages to those who would provide them grain because they could not feed their population. Fascist Italy’s involvement in Spain—whatever its political motives—in part was inspired by a desire to reach the Atlantic without having to subject itself to British authority at Gibraltar. Italy was no longer to be a prisoner of the Mediterranean, traversing its own waters only at the sufferance of Great Britain.

Clearly, Germany’s defense of Italian initiatives in Ethiopia, together with the tenuous alliance of National Socialist and Fascist forces in Spain, fostered an increasingly intimate diplomatic relationship between Hitler’s Germany and Fascist Italy. The “Pact of Steel” inextricably binding Italy to the fate of Hitler’s Germany. The Rome-Berlin alliance gave Italy increased confidence in the pursuit of its economic and security goals in the Mediterranean.

What seems clear in retrospect is that the association of Fascist Italy with National Socialist Germany was a union that reflected a shared bitterness at their treatment by the shared industrial powers—Italy because it was economically backward and Germany because it had been denied its place among the world powers as a consequence of its defeat in the Great War.

Mussolini invaded Albania—not only to ensure continued access to the sought after raw materials, but to exclude further British penetration into Italy’s defense perimeter. Albania was essential to the control of the Adriatic. With British forces based in Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar, Rome sought to deny English forces access to the Balkan defense region.

Throughout the Second World War, Germany and Italy fought what were essentially parallel wars, each pursuing what it conceived its own interests. What the two regimes shared was a common enemy—whose defeat was held to be essential to the furtherance of each respective end-goal.

Unlike the implications carried in Hitler’s demand for Lebensraum, the Fascist call for “spazio vitale” (vital living space), did not imply the mass murder of resident populations. Hitler imagined vast territories cleansed and swept free of inhabitants—where Germanics could be permanently settled. Italian Fascists, on the other hand, sought territory and resources that were to be shared with the domestic populations—just as “imperialists” had done since time immemorial.

Some people claim that Mussolini was racist… But Mussolini mocked racism, calling it “political foolishness.” He wasn’t an anti-Semite like Hitler and Stalin. Mussolini’s mistress was Jewish. 1-in-3 Jews occupied the Nationalist Party because they had been freed from the ghettos. In fact, 4 of the 7 founders of Italian Nationalism were Jews. Mussolini hardly massacred anyone. He killed remarkably few of his own citizens during his reign of a quarter century.

Entire volumes have been written that attempt to make the connection between Fascism and racism. Fascism did not subscribe to biological racism. The official Manifesto published in July 1938, maintained that "to say that human races exist is not to say apriori that there exist superior or inferior races, but only to say that there exist different human races.”

Mussolini—made increasingly aware of the National Socialists “final solution” to the Jewish question—communicated to Italian diplomatic, military, and police entities that not a single Jew anywhere that Italian forces occupied should be surrendered to National Socialist forces. Italian Fascists even helped Jews to escape persecution through routes to Spain. If they made it to an embassy they were granted citizenship. You won’t read that in most history books.

Lastly, some suggest that the last 600 days of the war was the selfish attempt of Mussolini to remain in power like Hitler. This is not true. When Mussolini was rescued from prison by German forces, he was reluctant to remain in power. There was every indication that Mussolini, physically and morally exhausted, sought nothing more than to be allowed to disappear into history. Equally evident was the fact that Italy’s German allies had absolutely no intention of allowing that to happen. Hitler and his staff met a thin and tragically distracted Mussolini in order to inform him that he was to assume command of a restored Fascist government—ally of National Socialist Germany—in a war that clearly threatened to destroy them all.

No one, least of all Mussolini, believed that the Axis powers could win the conflict then in what was clearly its final phase. His resumption of leadership was insisted upon by Hitler—and his position was secured by German arms. Mussolini was to be a puppet. He was in power and would remain in power—whether he or anyone else did, or did not, like it—as long as the Germans dominated the scene. From the very moment of his return to the leadership, it was absolutely clear that he would remain in power as long as Germany controlled what remained of the Italian peninsula.

Given his abject dispense on National Socialist Germany, Mussolini could do very little more than he did. He acted to contain its worse excesses. He tried to leave somewhat of a legacy by establishing a “Socialist Fascism” to socialize the Italian economy. He did this against Hitler’s wishes. In Benito Mussolini’s final days he committed himself to the socialization of Italian industry and agriculture… None of this has been an attempt to justify any of the poor choices that Fascism made, it is to understand it.

What you forgot to mention about Mussolini being a socialist was that the party kicked him out in 1915.

Why?

Because he supported Italy's entry into World War 1 while the vast majority of socialists didn't.

All the communist dogs seething at his statement, wonderful. Good overview also.

"second most deadly ideology" is such a non-starter. It's effectively meaningless. Colonialism, Capitalism, egalitarianism like there are so many ideologues. I feel like systems of government might be a slightly better term?

il duce-no boss. il duce=il doge

grazi-e

So if coup of 1922 was crushed Italy would still be kind of a constitutional monarchy

Because it's in their genes

W Fascism

Stay Mad Lazy people

No matter which way people try to paint it .....Fascism was undeniably a branch of Socialism.

AFAIK the king was also tired of the Italian politicians and absolutely detested them, so when Mussolini made the march on rome, he gave the king a perfect opportunity to finally rid himself of juggling with these pesky politicians and having some peace dealing with only one pary.

The king has basically doomed himself for his own comfort, he could've stopped him at almost any time he wished (the Fascists were never popular in Italy, unlike their German equivalent) but he choose inaction and thus lost his throne after the war (the Italian leadership was never great, the debacle which was the armistice showed that perfectly).

Wdym fascism is the second most deadly ideology?

"I did not create fascism
I drew it from the unconscious of the Italians.
if that weren't the case, they wouldn't have followed me for 20 years.
very mutable is the spirit of the Italians.
when I'm gone, I'm sure historians and psychologists will wonder how a man could have dragged a people like the Italians behind him for 20 years.
if I had done nothing else, this masterpiece would be enough not to be buried in oblivion.
others will perhaps be able to dominate with sword and fire, not with consent, as I did"
Last lecters.

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It is grossly innacurate to imply as you do multiple times in this video that fascism finds its roots in socialism or marxism, though musolini the individual was a former socialist, he did not invent fascism. The ideology was first put to paper by Giovanni gentile who was described by himself and musolini as the philosoher of fascism. He was not a socialist and was rabidly anticommunist.

I would say fascism is the the number one deadly ideology, 2nd being capitalism

"Second most deadly idealogy in the 20th century" Suddenly everything presented by this channel has become a lot more dubious to say the least

Mussolini: You make me Prime Minister or I make me Prime Minister
The King: You and what army?
Mussolini: THIS army.
The King: Fair Enough.

Ironically enough, despite Mussolini being the technically first fascist nation in modern history, he was never as hateful as bigoted as Hitler's Germany was, him and Franco both. Sure, they locked up political opponents, but they never persecuted Jews or ethnic minorities. Mussolini's model of the "Roman Citizen" is more like the modern model of the "Global Citizen". where anybody he conquered now belonged to Italy, regardless of if they were French of Albanian or Greek or what have you. As for Franco, his version of fascism was way more focused on trying to bring Spain back up the economic and military might that it was back at the height of the Spanish Empire. I believe he had plans for invading Portugal and Andorra but outside of uniting Iberia and buying the rest of Morocco from the French he didn't have any grand plans on expanding the borders of Spain. He even saw how futile the cause of the Axis was and refused every attempt by Hitler to get him to join the war, even going as far as to back off the Spanish claims of Gibraltar and allowing the Allies to use the Balearic Islands for naval bases and training.