What are your views and opinions on Benito and fascism? Do you think he earned a spot as a "historical bad guy" or did Hitler do that for him.
Mussolini and fascism
Lincoln White
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Parker Thomas
Historical bad guy according to whom?
Like Winston Churchill said, victors write history.
Samuel Turner
Most history professors and other history buffs that I've spoken to describe him as an "evil dictator", but it seems like they never have much of a reason for that besides his roll in the axis. However it does make sense that the victors would paint him as though he was evil just because he was against them. I'm just wondering what other people's stance on him might be.
Angel Gonzalez
He was /our guy/
Josiah Wood
He was good in his initial programs in Italy, he was retarded when he tried to go full "muh roman empire".
He should have stayed content when modernising Italy. He stood nothing to gain from imperialism in libya and ethiopia, he fucked up his invasion of greece, and he attacked the british empire for no reason and still fucked that up despite having overwhelming numbers.
tldr: good social/economic policies. Fucking absolutely disastrous and retarded foreign policy.
If you want a real /OurGuy/ that would be Generalissimo Franco. He repaired his country, defended national values and Catholicism, destroyed communism, and was wise enough to not go full retard and stay out of the shitshow that was world war 2.
James Clark
>good social/economic policies
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Easton Cox
Berlin-Rome axis was his biggest mistake.
Jack Walker
>/ourguy/
>good social policies
He deserved his rightful place hanging from a meathook
Lucas Moore
He was a literal cartoon character.
Laughable to say the least
Isaiah Foster
just cause you're a marxist cocksucker for judeo-bolshevism doesn't mean that the majority of his people didn't benefit from his economic and social reforms.
Connor Myers
>doesn't mean that the majority of his people didn't benefit from his economic and social reforms.
Lmao. See:
Evan Diaz
>everyone who disagrees with me is a Jewish Marxist
Triggered.
>majority of people benefitted
If they loved him so much, why'd they kill him?
Lincoln Lopez
Lmao see: one fucking thing in 1926 doesn't define his entire 20 year role and he massively picked up industrialisation in the 1930's.
Dominic Watson
>They
>Communist partisants
Gee i wonder why.
Jackson Collins
1. communists killed him, not "the people"
2. never said people loved him
3. his world war 2 participation and foreign policy since 1936 wrecked italy
I'm not defending Mussolini, I'm just pointing out he had both positives and negatives and his record is mixed, rather than the black and white "lol he was literally hitler" view that jewcucks take.
Adrian Ross
It could also be the fact that he was a totalitarian dickhead
Levi Wilson
>he massively picked up industrialisation in the 1930's.
Oh yeah because Italy was so industrially advanced before WW2 and totally didn't have to depend on Germany for basic resources such as electricity.
Christopher James
>jewcucks
You and /leftypol/ can fuck off
Christopher Sullivan
>why didn't a backwards agriculture third world country achieve the same level of production as the most industrial and technologically advanced country in europe?
Italy was third world tier. Mussolini didn't magically wave a wand and make everything perfect, but he definitely made improvements. I'm just trying to paint a sober picture, anyone who focuses only on his positives and pretends like his negatives don't exist, or only focuses on his negatives and pretends like his positives don't exist, is a retard.
what would you prefer me to call people who enjoy distorting everything to suit their narrative and victimhood?
Kayden Perry
/ourguy/
But don't be mad commies, Lenin is /ourguy/ too :3
Isaac Barnes
Mussolini drained a swamp in Rome that had been causing people malaria for eons. In fact a lot of his public works were successful.
Don't even make it a race thing. Italian Fascism never stressed race in tell Italy became sub-servant to Germany. Even then, race wasn't important. Even Afromericans like Marcus Garvey supported Mussolini in tell he invaded Abyssinia.
Lucas Flores
A profound and interesting individual. I've read many biographies and (his own autobiography) about Mussolini, and he often says things that impress me.
Fascism as a whole never really had the breathing room it deserved to carve out a clear and defined set of ideological rules or structures: the 'Doctrine of Fascism' co-written by Geovanni Gentile gives some interesting insight into Fascist thinking, but in all respects the Fascist ideology is mostly fractured and incomplete. The problem arose when many other countries started adopting their own breeds of Fascism, and it soon spiralled out of control, never leaving Italy to craft its own pure philosophy without association with things like National Socialism.
Perhaps also the greatest detriment to this was Mussolini's indecisiveness about many different subjects, and then being forced to become more politically aligned with Hitler.
Ultimately, Mussolini should have been the European powerhouse in World War 2, but was robbed of it by the National Socialists.
Invading Greece was fucking retarded.
Jaxson Morales
>Ultimately, Mussolini should have been the European powerhouse in World War 2, but was robbed of it by the National Socialists.
Perhaps the intellectual powerhouse, but I don't see how it could have matched France, UK, or Germany militarily & economically.
Thomas Scott
>what would you prefer me to call people who enjoy distorting everything to suit their narrative and victimhood?
NEETs from /pol/. You are a hilariously straightforward clinical case of psychological projection for everybody but yourself.
>Projection tends to come to the fore in normal people at times of personal or political crisis but is more commonly found in the neurotic or psychotic in personalities functioning at a primitive level as in narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder.
Nathan Allen
>NEETs from /pol/. You are a hilariously straightforward clinical case of psychological projection for everybody but yourself.
CRITICAL HIT /POL/TARDS
Anthony Reyes
It could gave by not joining Germany right away, or just stayed neutral. He should have continued his policy to protect Austrian independence
Brayden Price
Mussolini was a good boy he just started hanging with the wrong crowd.
Colton Phillips
>communists
>not totaliterian
I find it funny how foreign views about Mussolini went from "HE IS SAVING ITALY FROM GOBIES AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STAGNATION" to "NO ONE EVER LIKE MUSSOLINI LOOK AT THIS CLOWN AND SEE HOW HAPPY THE ITALIANS ARE AFTER AMERICA LIBERATED THEM"
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Daniel Cook
>my duce