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Benito Mussolini /benito mysɔlini/ , né le 29 juillet 1883 à Predappio et mort le 28 avril 1945 à Giulino di Mezzegra, est un journaliste, idéologue et homme d'État italien.

Fondateur du fascisme, il est président du Conseil du Royaume d'Italie, du 31 octobre 1922 au 25 juillet 1943, premier maréchal d'Empire du 30 mars 1938 au 25 juillet 1943, et chef de l'État de la République sociale italienne de septembre 1943 à avril 1945. Il est couramment désigné par le terme « Duce », mot italien dérivé du latin Dux et signifiant « Chef » ou « Guide ».

Il est d'abord membre du Parti socialiste italien et directeur du quotidien socialiste Avanti! à partir de 1912. Anti-interventionniste convaincu avant la Première Guerre mondiale, il change d'opinion en 1914, se déclarant favorable à l'entrée en guerre de l'Italie. Expulsé du PSI en novembre 1914, il crée son propre journal, Il Popolo d'Italia qui prend des positions nationalistes proches de celles de la petite bourgeoisie. Dans l'immédiate après-guerre, profitant du mécontentement de la « victoire mutilée », il crée le Parti national fasciste en 1921 et se présente au pays avec un programme politique nationaliste, autoritaire, antisocialiste et antisyndical, ce qui lui vaut l'appui de la petite bourgeoisie et d'une partie des classes moyennes industrielles et agraires.

Dans le contexte de forte instabilité politique et sociale qui suit la Grande Guerre, il vise la prise du pouvoir en forçant la main aux institutions avec l'aide des paramilitaires squadristi et l'intimidation qui culminent le 28 octobre 1922 avec la marche sur Rome. Mussolini obtient la charge de constituer le gouvernement le 30 octobre 1922. En 1924, après la victoire contestée des élections et l'assassinat du député socialiste Giacomo Matteotti, Mussolini assume l'entière responsabilité de la situation. La série de lois fascistissimes lui attribue, à partir de 1925, des pouvoirs dictatoriaux et fait de l'Italie un régime à parti unique.

Après 1935, il se rapproche du régime nazi d'Adolf Hitler avec qui il établit le Pacte d'acier . Convaincu d'un conflit à l'issue rapide, il entre dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale au côté de l'Allemagne nazie. Les défaites militaires de l'Italie et le débarquement des Alliés sur le sol italien entraînent sa mise en minorité par le Grand Conseil du fascisme le 24 juillet 1943 : il est alors destitué et arrêté par ordre du roi. Libéré par les Allemands, il instaure en Italie septentrionale la République sociale italienne. Le 25 avril 1945, alors qu'il tente de fuir pour la Valteline déguisé en soldat allemand, il est capturé par un groupe de partisans, qui le fusillent avec sa maîtresse Clara Petacci. Leurs corps sont livrés à une foule en colère et pendus par les pieds au carrefour de Piazzale Loreto à Milan. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. juillet 1883 – 28. avril 1945
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Benito Mussolini: Citations en anglais

“I don't like the look of him.”

To his aide after Mussolini's first encounter with Hitler (1934), as quoted in The Gathering Storm (1946) by Winston Churchill
1930s

“Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.”

As quoted in Mussolini: A Biography by Denis Mack Smith (1983) p. 7. Original source: Opera Omnia di Benito Mussolini (OO) 1/102-3 (14 Mar. 1908), 135, 142.
1900s

“Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.”

As quoted by Mussolini in 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haught (1966) p. 256. From a speech he made in Lausanne, July 1904.
1900s

“Comrade Tassinari was right in stating that for a revolution to be great, for it to make a deep impression on the life of the people and on history, it must be a social revolution.”

Speech to the National Corporative Council (November 14, 1933), in A Primer of Italian Fascism, edited/translated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp (2000) p.163.
1930s

“National pride has no need of the delirium of race. Anti-Semitism does not exist in Italy… Whenever things go awry in Germany, the Jews are blamed for it.”

As quoted in Talks with Mussolini, Emil Ludwig, Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company (1933) pp. 70-71. Mussolini’s interview was in 1932.
1930s

“Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.”

Popolo d'Italia (Feb. 1, 1921), quoted in The Menace of Fascism, John Strachey (1933) p. 65
1920s

“Socialism has to remain a terrifying and a majestic thing. If we follow this line, we shall be able to face our enemies.”

As quoted in Il Duce: The Life and Work of Benito Mussolini, L. Kemechey, New York: NY, Richard R. Smith (1930) p. 54. Written just before taking editorship of the Italian Socialist Party newspaper Avanti in 1912.
1910s

“It is blood which moves the wheels of history.”

Speech in Parma (13 December 1914) quoted in Foreign Affairs, May 1924, p 234 https://books.google.com/books?id=DsRYAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA234&lpg=RA1-PA234&dq=%22It+is+blood+which+moves+the+wheels+of+history!%22&source=bl&ots=v0BzInFnc_&sig=gEqKCdgCipviuomrOppXZrk6E_E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgtZuZvY_ZAhXJmeAKHWwWB_EQ6AEIUTAG#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20blood%20which%20moves%20the%20wheels%20of%20history!%22&f=false
1910s

“What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!”

As quoted in " Eja! Eja! Alala!" in TIME magazine (23 July 1923) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,716187,00.html
1920s

“Fascism was not the protector of any one class, but a supreme regulator of the relations between all citizens of a state.”

Benito Mussolini livre My Autobiography

My Autobiography , New York: NY, Charles Scribner’s Sons (1928) p. 280
1920s

“Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization... Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…”

Speech given by Mussolini to a group of Milanese Fascist veterans (October 14, 1944), quoted in Revolutionary Fascism, Erik Norling, Lisbon, Finis Mundi Press (2011) pp.119-120.
1940s

“It may be expected that this will be a century of authority, a century of the Left, a century of Fascism.”

From Jane Soames’s authorized translation of Mussolini’s “The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism,” Hogarth Press, London, (1933), p. 20. http://historyuncensored.wixsite.com/history-uncensored http://media.wix.com/ugd/927b40_c1ee26114a4d480cb048f5f96a4cc68f.pdf Julius Evola reproduced the original Italian as "un secolo della 'Destra" ("a century of the right"); see Evola, Fascismo e Terzo Reich. Several English translations agree with Evola's wording, including one published by the Fascist government in 1935 and transcribed online. http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm
Attributed

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

This quote spread rapidly in the United States after appearing in a column by Molly Ivins (24 November 2002). It is repeated often and sometimes attributed to the "Fascism" entry in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana. However hard copies of the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana exist in numerous libraries and the alleged quote is not in the text, nor is there anything that would support the alleged quote. A vaguely similar statement does appear in Doctrine of Fascism.
We are, in other words, a state which controls all forces acting in nature. We control political forces, we control moral forces, we control economic forces, therefore we are a full-blown Corporative state.
The same document explains that the "corporations" (corporazioni) on which the Fascist state rested were its own creations, modeled on guild associations and not private companies, which Italian normally calls società. For details see "Mussolini on the Corporate State" http://www.publiceye.org/fascist/corporatism.html by Chip Berlet.
Attributed

“Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution.”

Speech at the Italian Socialist Party’s meeting in Milan at the People’s Theatre on Nov. 25, 1914. Quote in Revolutionary Fascism by Erik Norling, Lisbon, Finis Mundi Press (2011) p. 88.
1910s

“Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.”

Benito Mussolini livre The Doctrine of Fascism

"The Doctrine of Fascism", June 1932. Quoted in Marco Piraino, Stefano Fiorito, Fascist identity : political project and doctrine of fascism. Lulu.com, 2009. (p. 107)
1930s

“I shall defend this pact with all my strength, and if Fascism does not follow me in collaboration with the Socialists, at least no one can force me to follow Fascism.”

As quoted in Italy: A Modern History, Denis Mack Smith, University of Michigan Press (1959) p. 352, Pact of Pacification, 1921
1920s

“I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.”

As quoted in The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006) by Clive Foss ISBN 1905204965
Undated

“Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.”

Speech at Udine (September 20, 1922) "The Question of Regime. The Monarchy and Fascism," quoted in A History of Civilization (1955) by Crane Brinton, John B. Christopher, and Robert Lee Wolff, p. 520
1920s

“God does not exist—religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.”

“Religion: Benito a Christian?” Time magazine (August 25, 1924)
1920s

“Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd.”

As quoted by Mussolini in 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haught (1966) p. 256. Originally came from Mussolini’s essay l'Homme et la Divinité, 1904.
1900s

“This is what we propose now to the Treasury: either the property owners expropriate themselves, or we summon the masses of war veterans to march against these obstacles and overthrow them.”

As quoted by Mussolini as leader of the Revolutionary Fascist Party (1919) in Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guerin (1973) p. 83. From article in Mussolini’s Popolo d’Italia on June 19, 1919.
1910s

“Inside every anarchist is a failed dictator.”

Quote from The Golden Book Magazine Vol. 16 (1932), p. 206 translated from what Mussolini said to Emil Ludwig (Colloqui con Mussolini, 1932)
1930s

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