What is a Fascist?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is the Unification of Italy a National Revolution?
Mussolini started off his life as a revisionist communist, a bit like Lenin. He came to the conclusion you couldn't have a global revolution, but you could have an Italian one. And it would be carried out not through the creation of a proletariat, because that was almost as off the cards as it was in Russia. So you had the idea of a national revolution. It was actually quite left-wing and about female rights,. Getting rid of the monarchy and getting rid of the church and everything else. In fact, all the way through to the end of the first fascist regime, because there were two, Fascism contained a sort of national left-wing element which is parallel
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