POLS-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Benito Mussolini, Status Quo, French Revolution
29 Sep 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Ideologies come from the right and the left. left and right were created through the seating arrangement of the french government after the french revolution. Ideology: a form of political thought that presents a pattern of complex ideas simply in a matter that inspires actions to achieve goals: fascism is an extreme right ideology, associated with adolf hitler and benito. Benito mussolini formed the fascist party in italy in 1919 and he ruled from 1922 to. Hitler formed the nazi party (national socialist german worker"s party) which was established in 1919 and hitler ruled from 1933 - 1945: fascism became popular because the democratic governments were weak. Germany had inflation in the economy because of the signing of the treaty of versailles after their defeat in wwi. Components of fascism: anti-rational (opposed to reason and intellectual thought), believe in social-darwinism and the struggle with the strong overcoming the weak, showing strength and reject humanitarian values of sympathy and caring.
