How Did Mussolini Succeed In Italy

Freedom was wiped out of Italy as soon as Mussolini assumed power, the political, economical and social activities were all controlled by the fascists. Mussolini stated that “Everything within the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state.” At this time Mussolini was not yet a dictator, and was unsatisfied with the current coalition government that he was in. He wanted even more power than he had and so appointed fascists in important government positions. However, he did not stop there, he demanded that parliament give him complete control. To secure his position as prime minister Mussolini declared that the most successful party only needed 25% of the votes to be given 66% of the seats in parliament. The fascist party also went as far as cheating

Still Mussolini continued to try to help the nation but nevertheless failed in most of his attempts. He proceeded to assist the industries of the state by buying only national products, although many of these products were more expensive than foreign products. Mussolini lead campaigns to deal with Italy’s economic problems, each problem had its own campaign. However, these were often catastrophes since Mussolini failed to look at the big picture, and would focus on one problem at a time. A famous campaign Mussolini lead was The Battle of Wheat. This was to make Italy self sufficient in wheat so that they wouldn’t have to depend on other countries for food. This in a way did work, since there was an abundant amount of wheat, but buying wheat from foreign countries would have been cheaper. The land was also wasted, instead of growing more suitable things for the land it was used up on wheat. This became the only food source for a period of time since it was the only thing being produced. Mussolini established a police force that watch towns, and the activities of people. In schools children were taught about fascism, they were told