The life in which Benito Mussolini lived was different from that of those who behaved and behaved better as educated young people should have been. He also changed the way life would be lived for the people residing in Italy, as he brought fascism into each of their lives, under his command. Mussolini eventually became a leader that some people soon aspired to and followed in his footsteps, some more evil than others. Growing up as a boy in the late 1800s, with little except his family, was all Mussolini really needed in life. . Benito grew up as the eldest son among his siblings. Mussolini's early political views were strongly influenced by his father, Alessandro Mussolini, a socialist who admired figures with humanist tendencies such as Carlo Pisacane and Giuseppe Mazzini. His father's political outlook, influenced in such a way that Benito looked at the world politically. He was a bit of what you would call a troublemaker. “As a child he was a difficult boy to manage, he was disobedient and had a short temper. Benito was expelled not just once, but twice for attacking classmates with a penknife” (Smith 1). As a compromise with his mother, Mussolini was sent to a boarding school, run by Salesian monks. After enrolling in a new school, Mussolini achieved good grades and qualified as a primary school teacher in 1901. Sorel's emphasis on the need to overthrow decadent liberal democracy and capitalism through the use of violence, direct action, general strike and the use of neo -Machiavellian appeals to the emotions deeply impressed Mussolini. With these thoughts and decisions already made by the young Mussolini, the world could only imagine the visions he would have as a superior power in... middle of paper... in Stria-Hungary which according to him had consistently repressed socialism. He further decided his position by denouncing the Central Powers as reactionary powers; for pursuing imperialist projects against Belgium and Serbia, as well as historically against Denmark, France and against the Italians, as hundreds of thousands of Italians were under Habsburg rule. He claimed that the fall of the Hohenzollern and Habsburg monarchies and the repression of "reactionary" Türkiye would create advantageous conditions for the working class. While supporting the Entente powers, Mussolini responded to the conservative nature of Tsarist Russia by arguing that the mobilization required for war would undermine Russia's reactionary authoritarianism and the war would lead Russia to social revolution. He maintained that for Italy the war would complete the Risorgimento process b
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