History 1404E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Communist Party Of Germany, Stock Market, Rosa Luxemburg
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We want the italians to make a choice we have conducted the struggle in so open an arena that there can now be only a clear for or against. And furthermore: we will pursue what has been called our erce totalitarian will [la nostra feroce volonta totalitaria]. We want to make the nation fascist, so that tomorrow italians and. Fascists will be the same thing: mussolini, speaking to the fourth congress of the fascist party (1923) Brought the fascist movement under his control. Fascist grand council 1923: in theory had a lot of power but the real power was with mussolini as only he could call a meeting and could set the agenda. Mass party membership: some where against it, wanted to keep it exclusive, party went from 300 000 to over 5 million, about 60 000 previous members kicked out of the party by mussolini and replaced.
