#michaelParenti #peace #poetry
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A dedication to peace, wrote Benito Mussolini "is hostile to fascism." Perpetual peace, Il Duce claimed in 1934, is a "depressing" doctrine. Only in "cruel struggle" and "conquest" do men or nations achieve their highest realization. "Though words are beautiful things," Mussolini asserted, "rifles, machine guns, planes, and cannons are still more beautiful."
On another occasion, our dear Benito wrote: "War alone . - 1/2
.puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it." Ironically many Italian army conscripts had little support for wars against peasants, workers, and the poor of other countries and of their own. The best fighters the Italians had were the partisans: guerrillas, underground fighters and others in the hills who only got close to Benito in order to kill him. Difficult to get sentimental about it."
--Michael Parenti, BLACKSHIRTS AND REDS p. 12 - 2/2
