"Italy thanked Jesus Christ for the renewed greatness of the Fatherland made stronger by Mussolini's policy."
Telegram from National Eucharistic Congress,
22nd August 1935,
sent to Italian government.
Sunday 26 October 2008
Last Week's Quote: Italian Bishops on Mussolini
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People today can't help but view the period through a heavily distorting bias. There is a need to divide everyone into the 'good' and 'evil' sides, which greatly oversimplifies the situation.
To the victor the spoils... we still have war propaganda and victor's "justice" dressed up as history via court historians who get their sinecures at plush universities and suchlike.
People, historians, politicians, academics etc. should be free to discuss, dissect and debate history from all sides using all available information to try and weed out the truth.
Did the USSR "free" Eastern Europe?
No?
That's what we were told in 1945...
Times change as do the glasses through which we view events.
As we become more dispassionate about WW2, its causes and effects, so we can start to look at it in a fairer way more suited to academic study, free of propaganda from both sides.
As someone who has read much about Mussolini and the fascist era in Italy in a dispassionate light, I think that Italy could have done a lot worse than what it had. Italian Fascism was a dictatorship, true, but one with a surprising lack of violence and certainly preferable to the main alternative of the time: Soviet-style communism with its massacres and famines.
We should also remember that social conditions in Fascist Italy were far advanced of those in "Capitalist" countries -- one thinks of the slums, hunger, wage-slavery, poor working conditions in 'advanced' nations like England and America, where the working classes were used as fodder for the mega rich (conditions which helped Communism, with its false dawn and false hopes, to rise as it appealed to those living on the breadline in awful housing).
As an ex-Socialist, Mussolini realised that looking after the Italian workers was not just the right thing to do, but the Patriotic thing to do which helped Italian unity and society.
That's why Distributists like Belloc had a lot of nice things to say about Mussolini.
Another fact which is consistently (or conveniently!) overlooked is that Il Duce did not surround himself with the trappings of office, and did in make the conscious decision to shun such material possessions and acrutments which he could have accepted. I mention this point to compliment the above message which shows that he was genuinely of the people, and it highlights the incorruptible nature of Fascism.
Absolutely. In fact with all the great fascists - from Argentina to France, from Austria to Italy, from Belgium to Slovakia, From Norway to Serbia (and there are plenty of others) - the one thing that shines through is great and sincere love of the working classes and the desire to alleviate the conditions brought about by Capitalism; largely because of the idea that man is created in the image of God and in the spirit of Christian charity: hence the popular nature of Fascism which brought (to coin a phrase) National Freedom and Social Justice.
As League of Welsh will testify the above shone through in the writings of "fascists" in Wales, such as Derrick Hearne and Saunders Lewis (in turn inspired by Charles Maurras).
If nationalism today openly espoused a genuine desire for Social Justice (As outlined on this blog - Distributism, Guilds and Social Credit) it too could rally the workers against corrupt EU-embroiled unions and a system that makes slavery and/or dole drudgery the norm.
sad to say too many want to appear "conservative" by not upsetting the City of London boat and think that the answer lies moreover in Mossad/CIA propaganda viz "the muzzies" being the problem -- and not the people who run our media, banks, parliament etc. etc.
Time for another reading of Saunders Lewis' poem 'The Deluge' mayhaps?
Er Budd Cymru, LoW... Er Budd Cymru ;-)
Remember the Welsh Dambusters!
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