Benito Mussolini Essay

The life in which Benito Mussolini lived was different from those who were more behaved and mannered like polite young men were supposed to be. He as well changed the way life would be lived for the people who resided in Italy, as he brought Fascism to their each and everyone of their lives, under his command. Mussolini eventually became a leader in whom some people soon to aspire and follow his footsteps, some more evil than others.
Growing up as a young boy in the late 1800’s, with having little, except his family, was all Mussolini needed really needed in life. Benito grew up as the eldest child amongst his siblings. Mussolini's early political views were heavily influenced by his father, Alessandro Mussolini, a socialist who admired figures with humanist tendencies such as Carlo Pisacane, Giuseppe Mazzini. His father's political outlook, influenced in a way that Benito would look at the world politically. He was a bit of what you would call a trouble maker. ”As a child he was a difficult boy to handle, he was disobedient and a had a quick temper. Benito was expelled not only once, but twice for assaulting fellow classmates with a penknife”(Smith 1).
As a compromise with his mother, Mussolini was sent to a boarding school, run by Salesian monks. After joining a new school, Mussolini achieved good grades, and qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901. Sorel's emphasis on the need for overthrowing decadent liberal democracy and capitalism by the use of violence, direct action, the general strike, and the use of neo-Machiavellian appeals to emotion, impressed Mussolini deeply. With these thoughts and decisions already being made by young Mussolini, the world could only imagine the visions he would have as a higher power in ...

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He decided his position further by denouncing the Central Powers for being reactionary powers; for pursuing imperialist designs against Belgium and Serbia as well as historically against Denmark, France, and against Italians, since hundreds of thousands of Italians were under Habsburg rule. He claimed that the fall of Hohenzollern and Habsburg monarchies and the repression of "reactionary" Turkey would create conditions beneficial for the working class. While he was supportive of the Entente powers, Mussolini responded to the conservative nature of Tsarist Russia by claiming that the mobilization required for the war would undermine Russia's reactionary authoritarianism and the war would bring Russia to social revolution. He claimed that for Italy the war would complete the process of Risorgimento b