What do Italians think about Mussolini?

The only reasonable way to think about Mussolini, nowadays, in my opinion, is in a neutral way: it's history. A history that Italians (and the rest of the world) should never repeat (but history is new people making old mistakes). read more

I think the following is what the majority of Italians think about Mussolini: whatever good he might have done, it will always be overshadowed by the enormous wrong things he did. read more

Most of Italians are socialist. There are three kind of socialism here: catholic, right, and left. Since 1920 Italy has had a fascist dictatorship (right socialism), fifty years of catholic socialist governments, and the greater western communist party. Mussolini was a former manager of the left socialist party. read more

Monasteries, I assume, are the acme of order to Italians. And that is how they thought of Mussolini – a regime of order, “un regime d’ordine”. When you consider just how disorderly modern Italy can be, especially below that invisible line that separates North from South, nostalgia for the Duce is understandable. read more