Benito Mussolini made use of Darwinist claims and concepts
set Italy on imperialist and Fascist foundations in the same way that
Hitler determined his policy by employing Darwinism.
Mussolini was a thorough Darwinist, who believed that
violence had been a propelling force in history and that war led to
revolution. For him, "the reluctance of England to engage in war only
proved the evolutionary decadence of the British Empire."
At the head of the magazine The People of Italy (Il
Popolo d'Italia), which he founded with financial assistance from the
French government, he put the phrase, "He who has iron will also have
bread." In other words he was telling the people that in order to be able
to fill their stomachs they needed the power to wage war. Mussolini chose
the axe as the symbol of Fascism and the Fascist Party. Because the axe
was the symbol of war, violence, death, and massacre.
Mussolini's conduct, aggressive and prone to violence like
every Fascist, is described in Denis Mack Smith's book. In his book, Smith
stated that one of Mussolini's unchanging beliefs was aggression and his
fundamental instinct was to resort to violence.
Like the other Darwinist-Fascists, Mussolini's warlike,
aggressive and oppressive policies led to many people being massacred,
being left without home and family, and to the country's being left in
ruins. Violence and oppression were practised, by means of the Blackshirts,
not only in his own country, but in others too. In 1935 he occupied
Ethiopia, and by 1941 had had 15,000 people wiped out. He did not delay in
backing and justifying his occupation of Ethiopia with Darwinism's
racialist views. According to Mussolini the Ethiopians were inferior
because they were of the black race, and being governed by a superior race
like the Italians should have been an honour for them.
On the other hand he continued the oppression of the
Muslims which had begun with Italy's occupation of Libya on Oct. 3, 1911,
and actually increased the attacks aimed against Muslims. The occupation
only came to an end with Mussolini's death in an agreement made on Feb.
10, 1947. During that period 1.5 million Muslims were martyred and
hundreds of thousands wounded.
Mussolini, who has gone down in history for his
ruthlessness and oppression, described the Fascism which he supported and
put into practice in a speech:
Fascism is no longer liberation but tyranny, no longer
the safeguard of the nation but the defense of private interests.
The Fascist Franco and the Oppression: He Gave Rise to
in Spain
Another of the Fascist oppressors who turned the 20th
century into a lake of blood was Franco. He organised the "Falange"
movement in Spain with the support of the Darwinist Fascists Hitler and
Mussolini, and brought great suffering and oppression to the people of
Spain. Franco dragged his people into civil war, turning brother against
brother, father against son.
During the Spanish Civil War an average of 250 people a
day were killed in Madrid, 150 in Barcelona, and 80 in Seville. Some
executions were carried out by driving nails into peoples' heads. Pitiless
massacres took place all over the country. In a little mountain village to
the north of Madrid, for example, 31 villagers were arrested because they
had not voted for Franco, and of these 13 were taken out of the village by
lorry and killed by the side of the road. The Fascists entered a town with
a population of 11,000 near Seville and killed more than 300 people. As a
result of the violent events which went on in this way some 800,000 people
were killed in the civil war, and 200,000 more executed by order of
Franco. Millions were injured or crippled.
The greatest supporters of the Fascist Franco in the Civil
War were Hitler and Mussolini. Franco did not leave his allies' support
unrewarded: he made one of the cruelest and most ruthless
agreements in history, giving small towns such as Guernica to the Nazis as
a gift for them to test their new weapons on.
On the morning of May 5, 1937, the people of the small
town of Guernica awoke to the death brought by giant bomber planes and
tons of bombs, the new miracles of Nazi technology. The little town had
been abandoned by Franco to the Nazi plane tests.
This event was only one of the products of this twisted
philosophy which regarded human beings as laboratory animals. This
philosophy, which left thousands of people to die just in order to test
the power of its weapons and which crippled, injured, and tortured
thousands of others, still lives today under different guises. This will
continue for as long as Darwinist philosophy and similar oppressions which
see human beings as a species of animal and war as the most effective
means of progress are kept alive.
As we have seen in the example from Mussolini and Franco,
Fascism, where the strong and cruel were right and superior and where the
only way to success and development was brute force, aggression, violence,
and war, was an implementation of Darwin's claims that "The strong live,
the weak die," and led to suffering for millions. (For
further information on the subject, see "Disasters Darwinism Brought to
Humanity" by Harun Yahya)
