/lit/ - Literature

>>8675943
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The response to getting some Communists in your town/farm? Hire some Blackshirts to run the commies out of town, and to get the property back into the hands of those who owned it. Mussolini became popular among conservative circles because of this, and because of his willingness to disregard what people like Marinetti were saying about how Fascism needed to be more revolutionary and progressive. During all of this, the Italian army and police didn't do much to stop Mussolini and his Fascists because nobody liked the Communists.

Then Mussolini decided he was going to pull off a coup. 40,000 Blackshirts set out for Rome, with only 800-1,000 making it because the police and military decide letting a bunch of paramilitaries march into the capital was a bad idea. The Italian king meanwhile decided that in order to keep the people (the violent ones, at least) happy, he would let Mussolini form a new government.

The Fascists were a minority party in the government, with only four cabinet positions being filled by Fascists. The only reason that changed was because the Fascists got the Acerbo Laws passed, giving them a control of the Italian government. It was only a couple years after that that Mussolini declared himself Il Duce. Mussolini's support came from three places: former soldiers, conservatives, and northern Italians. Even though Mussolini listened to intellectuals who talked about corporatism and syndicalism, those weren't implemented in Italy until the 1930s.

Fascism (in Italy) got its start in intellectuals who found Marxist theories about revolution inadequate, so they decided to use a revision of Marxism instead. Fascism found supporters all over Europe, but was almost always successful in those countries most affected by WW1, where popular figures (with either the acquiescence or acceptance of the military) managed to use the threat of Communism, poor economies, and national pride to get elected.

>>7521962
It implies at least these.
>autocratic government, almost always totalitarian
>anticommunist
>anticapitalist
>pro-war
>pro-imperialism
It can also imply a few others, depending on who exactly you're talking to.