A Biography Re-Examines Mussolini

[Paul Mackin]

Michel Ryckx wrote:

> Antonio Gramsci, leader of the Communist Party, and democratically chosen, was
> arrested on November 8, 1926 (he was sent by the PCI to the Soviet Union in
> 1924 in order to have him NOT arrested). He died in prison on April 27, 1937.
> This must have been the period of the real nice Mussolini, I think. I'll leave
> out the more than 30 other communist leaders who were convicted in 1928.

Bosworth's earlier Mussolini wasn't more nice I don't think was implied but less
the all powerful duce than emerged after foreign wars became  an important factor.
Wars which he led the country into.  The  distintion wasn't between a nice and
unnice Mussolini as much as much as between good and bad fascism. The  later
distinction apparently made by the so  called post fascists is what the reviewer
finds completely untenable. And probably Bosworth too. Bosworth also contends that
Italian fascism was more moderate from the point of view of changing society than
German  fascism which I didn't notice the reviewer particularly disagreeing with.

P. (who knows nothing about it)








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> Whatever the relation of fascism/nazism and capitalism may be -and that's a
> tricky problem- fascism always tries, at least in its initial phase, to gain
> popularity by accaparating leftier demands.  They are always set aside when
> they are in power, or when there's a perspective to gain power.
>
> But it's ice cream time now.
>
> Michel.
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