Italian fascism

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Italian fascism (Italian: fascismo italiano), also called classical fascism or simply fascism, is the original fascist ideology, which Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini developed in Italy. The ideology of Italian fascism is associated with a series of political parties led by Mussolini: the National Fascist Party (PNF), which governed the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943, and the Republican Fascist Party (PFR), which governed the Italian Social Republic (RSI) from 1943 to 1945. Italian fascism is also associated with the post-World War II Italian Social Movement (MSI) and later Italian neo-fascist political organizations. Italian fascism was initially a left-wing nationalist and anti-clerical movement, and originated from ideological combinations of ultra-nationalism and Italian nationalism, national syndicalism, revolutionary nationalism, and from the militarism of Italian irredentism to regain "lost overseas territories of Italy" deemed necessary to restore Italian nationalist...

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