![]() More crust than votesĪround Mussolini’s banner there rapidly grew up an army of followers-from gangsters to sincere patriots. He made it into the voice of all the elements-the veterans, the unemployed, the renegade socialists, the nationalists, and so forth-who were discontented and disillusioned with democracy. Thereupon Mussolini founded his own newspaper, enlisted in the Italian army, was wounded, and returned to run the paper. He broke with the party over the issue of Italian neutrality in the first World War-he was for participation alongside the Allies-and was expelled from it. Through successive stages of radicalism and anticlericalism-including several years of exile in Switzerland because, as a confirmed pacifist, he refused to undergo military training-Mussolini became a leader of the Socialist party and editor of its newspaper. He was s one of them, a natural leader, and a firebrand of the first order. As he grew up he knew the hunger and hardships of the laboring class. He was named after Benito Juarez, the Mexican revolutionary leader. Son of a blacksmith of radical persuasion, Mussolini was a born revolutionary. ![]() ![]() ![]() From his birth in 1883 to the day of his death in 1945 Benito Mussolini was many things to many men. ![]()
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