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Part One: How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win

2024/8/20
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In 1920s Italy, liberal newspapers like La Stampa and Italian Illustration failed to support worker strikes and downplayed fascist violence. They blamed labor movements for provoking the fascists and focused on the disruption caused by strikes rather than the violence perpetrated by Mussolini's supporters.
  • Liberal papers treated strikes as economically devastating, even short, two-day strikes.
  • They portrayed factory occupations by workers as childish.
  • Fascist violence against workers was downplayed and often attributed to provocation by the workers themselves.
  • Liberal columnist Renato Simone argued that the true victims of fascist violence were the disrupted middle class.

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Robert sits down with best pal Michael Swaim to discuss the great liberal media organizations of Italy, Germany and the U.S. in the 1920s and 30s, and how they failed utterly to stop Mussolini and Hitler.

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