Benito Mussolini The Doctrine Of Fascism

Hitler and Mussolini were very similar since both shared the same motives for gaining power and the Fascist belief in absolute control by one supreme leader. After World War I, Italy was upset that they didn't get the land they were promised and Germany was angered by the reparations that they faced. In Benito Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism he wrote, “The Italian people will rise again to create a new Roman Empire, and once again the Italian people will lead the world.” Hitler hoped to develop an Aryan racial state that would dominate Europe and the rest of the world (Spielvogel 853). The two leaders thought that their country needed to gain back what was lost and one day even control the world. Since both Mussolini and Hitler had the same intent of their respective country and the hope of rising to power, they were more alike than different.
According to Benito Mussolini in The Doctrine of Fascism, “Fascism denies that the majority can rule human societies.” Mussolini believed that Italy should deny the basic right of democracy because the majority is unruly and inferior. Likewise, Hitler believed the masses should not rule since they lacked the intellect and the discipline to make wise decisions, as shown in his book Mein Kampf: “The Fascist worldview can exist only if leaders of great intellectual ability are served by a large mass of men who are passionately devoted to the cause.” Since they both ruled by the same fundamental ideas of a government, Hitler and Mussolini were more similar than different. Therefore, both Mussolini and Hitler shared the idea that they would dominate the world and the theory that a supreme leader should rule