| | He was named Benito after Mexican reformist President Benito Juárez; the names Andrea and Amilcare were for Italian socialists Andrea Costa and Amilcare Cipriani. ... Like his father, who was a member of the first Socialist International, Benito became a socialist. ... and a second attempt to deport him was halted when Swiss socialist parliamentarians held an emergency debate to discuss his treatment. .. he did office work for the local socialist party and edited its newspaper L'Avvenire del Lavoratore ... he joined the staff of the "Central Organ of the Socialist Party" ... The word "Fascio" had existed in Italian politics for some time. A section of revolutionary syndicalists broke with the Socialists over ... Both a movement and a historical phenomenon, Italian Fascism was, in many respects, an adverse reaction to both the perceived failure of laissez-faire economics and fear of international Bolshevism ... While failing to outline a coherent program, fascism evolved into a new political and economic system that combined corporatism, totalitarianism, nationalism, and anti-Communism in a state designed to bind all classes together under a capitalist system. This was a new capitalist system, however, one in which the state seized control of the organization of vital industries. ... During his 21-year rule, Mussolini launched several public construction programs and government initiatives throughout Italy to combat economic setbacks or unemployment levels. His earliest was Italy's equivalent of the Green Revolution, known as the "Battle of the Grain", which saw ... by encouraging the public to voluntarily donate gold jewellery such as necklaces and wedding rings to government officials in exchange for steel armbands bearing the words "Gold for the Fatherland". ... Mussolini played up to his financial backers at first by transferring a number of industries from public to private ownership. But by the 1930s he had begun moving back to the opposite extreme of rigid governmental control of industry. ...
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