POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ghostwriter, Benito Mussolini, Mein Kampf
20 Dec 2016
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Emerged about 100 years ago almost from nowhere. Borrowed elements/concepts from the left and right. Benito mussolini: dictator of fascist italy, came into power unexpectedly in the 1920s when he and his friends marched on. Gentile wrote up the ideas that represented fascism: gentile took basically all ideas from the philosopher hegel. Had a ghost writer write the enciclopedia italianna which outlined what he believed fascism meant. Hitler wrote mein kampf which was about national socialism. Both fascism and national socialism are very much related to socialism. Both of these movement believe in state control of the economy. In fascist italy it manifests itself in the form of corpratism. (i) corpratism: takes individual segments of the economy and join together that part of the government which supervises the industry with the owners and workers. A partnership between the government, owners, and unions: in principle corpratism can be quite democratic.
