One hundred years ago, in March 1919, Benito Mussolini created the fascist party in Italy.
For more than two decades, when he came to be known as “Il Duce,” or “the leader,” Mussolini wielded broad powers. At the end of World War II, he was shot by a firing squadfor his crimes. His body was publicly hung upside down.
In my political philosophy course at Indiana University, my students and I study Mussolini's rise to power and his dishonorable end. His life offers deep, cautionary insights for contemporary politics.
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