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Beginning in 1922 fascist paramilitaries escalated strategy from attacking socialist offices to violent occupation of cities

Mussolini and fascists took advantage of situation by allying with industrial businesses and attacking workers and peasants

Fascists banned literature on birth control increased penalties for abortion in 1926 declaring both crimes against state

Fascists identified primary opponents as majority of socialists on left who opposed World War I intervention

Fascists met little serious resistance from authorities proceeded to take over several northern Italian cities

Prior to fascism's accommodations to political right fascism was small urban northern Italian movement with about a thousand members

Authors state local elites and large landowners played important role in boosting Fascist Party activity and support

Fascism sought to accommodate Italian conservatives by altering political agenda abandoning populism republicanism anticlericalism adopting policies supporting free enterprise accepting Catholic Church and monarchy

Fascism adopted anti-modern positions to appeal to people upset with new trends in sexuality and women's rights fascists sought to maintain fascism's revolutionary character

Italian fascists pursued aggression towards Yugoslavia and South Slavs with persecution of South Slavs

2020 article found strong association between Red Scare in Italy and subsequent local support for Fascist Party in early 1920s

Plenge believed racial solidarity would replace class division and racial comrades would unite to create a socialist society in the struggle of proletarian Germany against capitalist Britain

The Fascist Manifesto was presented on 6 June 1919 in the fascist newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia and supported the creation of universal suffrage including women's suffrage proportional representation on a regional basis government representation through a corporatist system of National Councils of experts and abolition of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy

German sociologist Johann Plenge spoke of the rise of National Socialism in Germany within the ideas of 1914 that were a declaration of war against the ideas of 1789

After World War I fascists commonly campaigned on anti-Marxist agendas

D'Annunzio and De Ambris designed Charter advocating national-syndicalist corporatist productionism

Italians claimed Fiume disregarding 50.4% Yugoslav population

British historian Cyprian Blamires argues there are similarities between fascism and Bolshevism including they believed in the necessity of a vanguard leadership showed contempt for bourgeois values and had totalitarian ambitions

He believed the Spirit of 1914 manifested itself in the concept of the People's League of National Socialism

Many fascists saw Charter of Carnaro as ideal constitution for fascist Italy