Did Italian Fascism improve the lives of Italians? Did Italians support fascism? If WW2 never happened how would Mussolini be remembered today?
>>18103258>Did Italian Fascism improve the lives of Italians? Yes. Mussolini pushed through a lot of reforms and improvements regarding welfare and healthcare, he started pretty large agricultural programs that provided millions of rural poors with good jobs, he massively curbed social instability caused by rabid commies and local organized crime, and much moreWas it all good shit? Of course not, he was still a dictator.Were all programs well planned and executed? Of course not, every government fucks up at least as much as it succeeds.Still fascist policies were enough of a net positive that most of them only got abolished once they became obsolete rathr than as soon as republicans took over.>Did Italians support fascism?Yes, its policies plus the propaganda were more than enough to keep most of the population quite happy.This changed somewhat after the mid 30s, but even during the war fascism fell more because it lost the war than the people.>If WW2 never happened how would Mussolini be remembered today?That's very hard to say because Mussolini had a much looser grip on the party than his title would suggest. The Grand Council of Fascism was frequently very antagonistic and the gerarchi were always looking for blood in the water.By this I mean that nowadays Mussolini is actually very well regarded in Italy, outside of institutional discourse. But if there was no war he might have been taken out by a rival and been sidelined rather than be remembered as the incarnation of fascism.Or fascism might have gone the way of francoism and be remembered less fondly than it is in our timeline due to being defeated internally.
>>18103258I think benito had a miserable ending
>>18103258With no World War 2 to discredit Fascism, Mussolini would have likely been seen similar to Franco. A fairly, though authoritarian, dictator who kickstarted a new political movement. Chances are other Classical Fascist regimes like Dollfuss' Austria would have also lasted longer.This also weighs a lot on National Socialism, which Mussolini disliked. National Socialism and Fascism being two different ideas would be more common knowledge rather than WW2 lumping these incompatible ideas together.
>>18103258>Did Italian Fascism improve the lives of Italians?Over all. The welfare system he built was kept with only minor change up to the 90s, when the EU-pushed economic liberation policy started dismantled it (unless you are a """"refugees""" of course. For them free stuff is Always aviable) with catastrophic results>Did Italians support fascismNot all of them, but the majority for sure. unless you was a commies poisoned with political obsession to the point of being labeled as a enemy of the State or a Jew (only After 1938) your Life post-Fascism was over all Better than the one pre-Fascism>If WW2 never happened how would Mussolini be remembered today?Would really had depend on how and when he would had resigned/died
>>18103258>Did Italian Fascism improve the lives of Italians?Well the Fascists basically robbed Socialist and non-Fascist Union property and redistributed some of it to their petite bourgeois base.So yes, it improved some people's lives temporarily. The general population was just rubes though and eventually, the Fascists expanded their policy of robbery to all Italians, leaving them poorer than before, and in many cases, notably less alive.>Did Italians support fascism?In the sense that Italian Fascism didn't have a completely coherent policy, even by the standards of mass parties, which allowed people room to project their own concerns on it. In the sense that "Fasces", as in cooperatives and mutual support groups, had been part of the Italian fabric of life since before the take-over and some ends of the Fascist party kept pushing for them while the rest robbed the Italians blind.In general, what they supported were policies of the other Italian political movements and parties, which Fascism heavily mined for sound bites.
>>18104433>>18104425>>18103292Mussolini actually probably would have been an ally of the United States during the Cold War. Fascism wouldn't be seen as so taboo.
