"Fascist assaults on individual freedom were profound. “The Fascist State
organizes the nation but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to individual; the latter is
deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom but retains what is essential; the
deciding power in this question cannot be individual, but the State alone,”
acknowledged Mussolini (1933, 24). When a state defines the boundaries of freedom,
including what is harmful and what is not, it is not freedom at all, but mockery of it.
Individuals ultimately succumbed to the will of a state and the will of the collective
prevailed. Essentially, fascists had pursued a policy of first socializing the population
and then the economy, the opposite of the Bolsheviks."
The state made it clear that in order to survive under the new conditions, the
population must accept fascist ideas and actively participate in their implementation.
Those who remained outside the system were doomed to a miserable existence due to
unemployment or low-paid unskilled labor and were cut off from many social
programs. Therefore, the state forced the population to accept fascist ideology,
rewarding obedient people with economic privileges, while simultaneously punishing
dissident thoughts. They created a bilateral system in which, on the one hand,
employees were connected to the government's redistribution machine through various
social programs, and on the other hand, they used trade unions to instill fascist ideology
in people.
file:///C:/Users/DELL/Downloads/Left...--%20Final.pdf
organizes the nation but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to individual; the latter is
deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom but retains what is essential; the
deciding power in this question cannot be individual, but the State alone,”
acknowledged Mussolini (1933, 24). When a state defines the boundaries of freedom,
including what is harmful and what is not, it is not freedom at all, but mockery of it.
Individuals ultimately succumbed to the will of a state and the will of the collective
prevailed. Essentially, fascists had pursued a policy of first socializing the population
and then the economy, the opposite of the Bolsheviks."
The state made it clear that in order to survive under the new conditions, the
population must accept fascist ideas and actively participate in their implementation.
Those who remained outside the system were doomed to a miserable existence due to
unemployment or low-paid unskilled labor and were cut off from many social
programs. Therefore, the state forced the population to accept fascist ideology,
rewarding obedient people with economic privileges, while simultaneously punishing
dissident thoughts. They created a bilateral system in which, on the one hand,
employees were connected to the government's redistribution machine through various
social programs, and on the other hand, they used trade unions to instill fascist ideology
in people.
file:///C:/Users/DELL/Downloads/Left...--%20Final.pdf