HIS 1001 Lecture 1: Global Lecture Series 1: Mussolini's Vision for Rome
Document Summary
One of the world"s great cities still bears the signature of a facist dictator and no one wants to talk about it. max page, boston globe. Founding the fascist party: bands of fascist italian word for union of forces, growing private army of black shirts, violently attacked socialist organizers, headquarters, etc. Mussolini"s fascism: glorification of supreme leaders, was very popular when he was in power, attempt to recapture previous glory of roman empire, mussolini"s rome as the third rome, after imperial rome and constantinople. Imperial expansion (in order to grow size of his envisioned roman empire) Importance of putting mussolini"s stamp on the city of rome itself. Communism goes farther than fascism back to karl marx. Communism"s main message is that history goes through several stages and that the stage. Marx was in was capitalism, which says businesses own the means of production and the working class work and get paid a salary but don"t share in the profits.