It was initially intended to be such. Benito Mussolini had gotten his start in politics as a Socialist writer and theorist, but he broke with the Italian Socialists during World War I. After the war, he was one of the major founders of Fascism, and, while Fascism was decidedly right-wing (in many ways, the opposite of Socialism), he nevertheless brought with him some of the Socialist pro-labor ideas.
However, in practice, Fascism wound up not being very pro-labor. It created a system called "corporatism"- in short, this system set up amalgamations of big businesses and government agencies that would work together to control the Italian economy. In this system, the workers wound up having very little power or rights, and unions were either abolished or replaced with new unions under the control of the corporatist agencies.
To keep the working class under control, extensive Propaganda efforts and powerful police agencies kept things in line. A cult of personality tried to make the people practically worship Mussolini. Italy began attacking other countries, such as Albania and Ethiopia, to try to conquer them and create a new Roman Empire. These early successes made Mussolini's government popular, despite Mussolini eliminating the people's freedom.
False. It is meant to help one person. The dictator.
fascism
Fascism in the 20s/30s was a response to the economic situation after WWI. People followed leaders b/c of economic distress.
Currently, most Japanese are horrified by fascism (and there is a strong pacifist movement in Japan), but historically, especially in the 1930s and 1940s, Japanese people were very patriotic and militaristic, making fascism popular.
Communism requires a government-controlled command economy, while fascism does not.
Fascism is government that makes most of the decisions for the people, and they have no say about it. Some strengths of fascism are that it makes people proud of their country and keeps an area safe.
Hitler was a fascism against homeless people, handy cap people, and smart people so that he can have the power to control the people.Millions of people shed their blood to defeat fascism in the second world war.
Rich people
People were desperate. And the political state of countries were unorganized. The rise of fascism
When most people hear the word ``fascism,'' they naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. But there was also an economic policy component of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and '30s as ``corporatism,'' that was an essential ingredient of economic totalitarianism as practiced by Mussolini and Hitler. So-called corporatism was adopted in Italy and Germany during the l930s and was held up as a ``model'' by quite a few intellectuals and policy makers in the United States and Europe. A version of economic fascism was in fact adopted in the United States in the 1930s and survives to this day. In the United States these policies were not called ``fascism'' but ``planned capitalism.'' The word fascism may no longer be politically acceptable, but its synonym, ``industrial policy,'' is as popular as ever.
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Because of economic depression in Europe at that time the people were desperate for a way out of the poverty.Along comes Adolph Hitler and Benito"Il Duce'" Mussolini,both very charismatic,forceful speakers saying all the right things,promising the people"deliverance".The people fell for it and we all know what happened after that. The fascism was just part of the package.