Benito Mussolini
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Benito Andrea Amilcare Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was leader of the Partito Nazionale Fascista (National Fascist Party), and the prime minister of Italy. He is the grandfather of Alessandra Mussolini.
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[edit] Youth
Mussolini was born in Predappio near Forlì in Emilia-Romagna. His father Alessandro Mussolini was a blacksmith and socialist activist, and in youth he had participated to the Mexican revolution with famous Sancho Panza. In the 1915 Mussolini is enlisted but he was wounded accidentally by the explosion of a mortar bomb in his trench at the end of the war in 1917.
[edit] Birth of Fascism
On March 23, 1919, Mussolini in Milan, Piazza San Sepolcro, organized I Fasci Italiani da Combattimento and he exposed the programme of your movement.
[edit] Programme of San Sepolcro
In the programme of “Fasci di combattimento” (the original Fascist party, born in 1919 in Milan) [1] are exposed many proposals of political and social reformation in a progressive sense, which were never carried out during the fascist period. Later they were introduced by Repubblican Fascist Party of RSI, but only for a propagandist aim. It’s possible take into consideration an extract of the “San Sepolcro’s” text to make understand easier some of the original progressive proposals: § For the political problem: WE WANT: § 1. Universal suffrage with scrutiny of regional list, with proportional representation, vote and opportunity of election for women. § 2. The minimum age of electors cut down to 18 years; that for deputies cut down to 25 years. § 3. The abolition of the Senate. § 4. The summoning of a National Assembly for the duration of three years, whose first duty is to establish the form of the State’s costitution. § [...] § For the social problem: WE WANT: § 1. The promulgation of a State’s law which ratified for all jobs the legal day of eight hours of work. § 2. The minimum wage. § 3. The participation of delegates of workers to the technical functioning of industry. § [...] § 6. A necessary modification of the plan law of disability and oldness insurance cutting down the age limit, presently at 65 years, to 55 years. § For the military problem: WE WANT: § 1. The institution of a National Militia (with a brief training service) with exclusively defensive purposes. § [...] § For the financial problem: WE WANT: § 1. A strong and extraordinary levy on the progressive capital, which must be a true form of a partial expropriation of all richness. § 2. The attachment of all properties of the religious congregations and the abolition of all bishop-dioceses which constitute an huge expense for the Nation and a privilege for few people.
