![]() ![]() ![]() To finance this corporate welfarism, the populists had to be taxed more heavily, and social welfare expenditures drastically cut. The state, in turn, had to provide the big owners with massive subsidies and tax exemptions. After World War I, to maintain profit levels, the large industrialists and big land owners had to slash wages and raise prices. (We know about people who switch sides, don’t we?) And with the huge sums he got from wealthy interests, Mussolini was able to project himself onto the national scene as the leader of a movement that specialized in attacking unions, peasant farm cooperatives, socialists, communists, and anarchists. It propagates the widely proclaimed New Order while serving the same old moneyed interests.īefore World War I, Benito Mussolini was a socialist, but the minute the wealthy classes in Italy offered him financial support and power, he didn’t hesitate to switch sides. It makes a revolutionary appeal without making an actual revolution. ![]()
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