via Sherine Hamdy Mursi and Mussolini Peter Gran- history professor at Temple University "I find myself still quite comfortable with the comparison of Mursi and Mussolini. Both came to power democratically, found democracy to be an obstacle so they began to modify it, in terms of constitutions, judiciaries, parliaments and what not, both faced unemployment issues and resolved them through foreign adventures. Mussolini had time to work out his Fourth Shore in detail, Mursi was just beginning to send young men to Syria. Both opposed the trade unions and hated the anarchists. Mussolini again having more time than Mursi was able to create Christian syndicates and to break the existing unions. The approach to gender in both cases was ultra-patriarchal. After Mussolini failed to deliver, the Italian people and army pushed him out. He died ignominiously. For a long time, Western opinion about Italy was not terribly critical. Gradually, the coming of the alliance between Mussolini and Hitler led to a more thoughtful set of inquiries into Fascism and the post war academic world was strongly anti-Fascist. It seems to me this is repeating itself, history being mainly repetitions, only the Egyptians today are politically more awake than were the Italians then, so the turnover today is faster."
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 05:34:57 +0000
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