FASCIST PARTY

On January 3, 1925, Benito Mussolini dissolves the Italian parliament and proclaims himself dictator of Italy, taking the title "Il Duce" (the Leader).

“We do not intend to oppose the workers’ movement, only to expose the mystification perpetrated by a horde of middle-class, lower-middle-class, and pseudo-middle-class men who believe themselves to be the saviors of humanity simply by virtue of possessing a party membership card. We are not against the proletariat, but against the Socialist Party insofar as it remains anti-Italian. After the victory, the Socialist Party continued to abuse the war, fighting against those who had supported the intervention, threatening them with reprisals and excommunication.” — Benito Mussolini

“Immediately, the Italian left branded fascism a reactionary force in the service of the bourgeoisie. And it would continue to do so. History, in general, has accepted this definition of fascism, but fascism was anything but a right-wing movement.” — Nicholas Farrell, Mussolini: A New Life

"The obvious truth, evident to all those not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps tired of freedom. They are fed up with it. Freedom is no longer the virginal, chaste, and austere freedom for which we must fight, we have buried the putrid corpse of freedom, the Italian people are a flock of sheep." — Benito Mussolini

“Mussolini himself cited Nietzsche and Sorel as the two masters who inspired him. Both opposed laissez-faire; both were anti-parliamentary, anti-liberal, and anti-democratic; both had a marked authoritarian bent.” — Francis Parker Yockey

“The Fascist State does not create its own God, as Robespierre once attempted in the extreme delirium of the Convention; nor does it vainly seek to erase Him from people’s souls, as Bolshevism does; Fascism respects the God of ascetics, saints, and heroes, and also the God seen and invoked by the innocent and primitive hearts of the people.” — Benito Mussolini

“With the gladius of Rome, civilization triumphs over barbarism, justice triumphs over cruel arbitrariness, the redemption of the wretched triumphs over age-old slavery.” — Benito Mussolini

“Mussolini gave humanity the sound formula of the National Labor State, the definition of the State as the Fortress of the Nation, the reconciliation of labor and capital in the corporatist system, and the scheme of internal unification and self-organization of each nation.” — Konstantin Rodzaevsky

“Mussolini is one of the greatest politicians I have ever seen. His ideas reflect the goodness of what is written in the Holy Bible. He is the perfect guide for humanity.” — Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

Fascist Italy

Il Duce

Italian soldiers advance on Greece, Autumn of 1940.