Mussolini framed fascism as opposition to democracy and majority rule
Evidence
See, for example, Mussolini “The war was ‘revolutionary’ in the sense that it liquidated in rivers of blood the century of democracy, the century of number, of majority, of quantity”, in Which way is the world going? , 1922; or again, “Fascism is against democracy which levels the people down to the largest number, bringing it down to the level of the majority”, in The Doctrine of Fascism , 1932. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2215
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s broader theses on hegemony, the role of intellectuals, and the passive revolution — this is Mussolini quoting back a violence against ‘the century of number’ which maps onto Gramsci’s critique of coercion replacing consent.
Related
- Fascism’s essence was disputed among revolutionaries in 1926 (similarity 0.81)
- Mussolini rejected opposition as unnecessary and internalized it within the regime. (similarity 0.80)
- The PCI’s founding policy treated fascism as secondary to social democracy within bourgeois rule (similarity 0.79)
- The early PCI leadership treated fascism as secondary to the social-democratic threat (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci rejected the fascist analogy equating Mussolini with Caesar (similarity 0.78)