"All would be for the state, nothing outside the state and no-one against the state" These were the words of Benito Mussolini as he addressed the audience at La Scala opera house in Milan on the 28th October 1925, at a celebration of the third anniversary of the March on Rome. These words appear to confirm that the Duce's ultimate aim was a totalitarian state for Italy. But this was to be easier said than done. …
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…extent that Hitler and Stalin did. However this process of negotiation and compromise in turn shaped Mussolini's government and the way he exercised power in this period. He had to continue to appease those who had allowed him to gain the position of power which he then held. Persuasion was his only option. By 1929 Mussolini had consolidated his power, but it was a compromised power, the inevitable product of the processes which had created it.