Watching
30 Days of The Gays™

A SPECIAL DAY
[UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE]
Ettore Scola
Italy, 1977

BENITO MUSSOLINI
My Autobiography*

Your enemy's life is the only thing standing in the way of your victory.

*See also Donald Trump's Project 2025

ROBERT O. PAXTON
The Anatomy of Fascism

While Mussolini toiled long hours at his desk, Hitler continued to indulge in the lazy bohemian dilettantism of his art-student days. When aides sought his attention for urgent matters, Hitler was often inaccessible. He spent much time at his Bavarian retreat; even in Berlin he often neglected pressing business. He subjected his dinner guests to midnight monologues, rose at midday, and devoted his afternoons to personal passions such as plans by his young protege Albert Speer to reconstruct his hometown of Linz and the center of Berlin in a monumental style benefiting the Thousand-Year Reich.

After February 1938 the cabinet ceased to meet; some cabinet ministers never managed to see the Fuhrer at all. Hans Mommsen went so far as to call him a 'weak dictator.' Mommsen never meant to deny the unlimited nature of Hitler's vaguely defined and haphazardly exercised power, but he observed that the Nazi regime was not organized on rational principles of bureaucratic efficiency, and that its astonishing burst of murderous energy was not produced by Hitler's diligence.

HARRY TRUMAN

Fascism did not die with Mussolini. Hitler is finished - but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains. It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than it is to kill the ideas which gave them birth and strength.

BENITO MUSSOLINI

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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.