Fascist Italy cut poverty relief funding despite propaganda claims

Evidence

Contrary to what the Fascist propaganda declared, “assistance funding was even cut by 4.5 million between 1929- 1930 and 1930- 1931” (Melis 2018, 468), resulting in a contraction of poverty relief (Preti and Venturoli 2000, 744). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1734

Categorization

• FICTION: A regime’s welfare-state rhetoric masking simultaneous cuts to actual relief is a vivid narrative device — a totalitarian state performing care while stripping resources from the poor.
• XREF: connects to: Fascist Italy slashed redistributive spending from 26 percent to 11 percent of outlays — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1709; Fascist Italy’s wage cuts were justified using manipulated statistics — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1716; Italian economists blamed poverty on working-class moral defects rather than economic causes — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1141

Broader Connections

• Fascist Italy’s wage cuts were justified using manipulated statistics #expands (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1716
• Italian economists blamed poverty on working-class moral defects rather than economic causes #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1141