HIST 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Italian Fascism, Cultural Policy, Degenerate Art
Document Summary
Futurism : declared war was the only cure to the modern world. The idea that violence would have a cleansing function in society and create new structure. Survives the war in italy and will influence some in the country in early 1920s. End of first world war has dissatisfaction for those in italy due to loss in territory they were promised at the end of the war. Italy will also suffer greatly 700k dead and 15 billion dollars gone. But they had little to show for at the end of war. Socialist background: father was left-ring socialist blacksmith; mother teacher. Mussolini was known for having a violent streak in his youth. Two main influencers were marx and fredrick neitzsche. Lead a socialist newspaper at the end of war and used the word fascists. fascio/fasces : origin means a bundle of sticks. Red years, 1920-22: high unemployment, inflation, serious issues with agriculture production.
