Bentino Musolini was an Italian philosopher and politician for the National Fascist Party, who held Counter-Enlightenment views. He endorsed this stance during his term as Italian prime minister from 1922 to 1943. Fascism is an overtly authoritarian, right-wing system which promotes dictatorship, autocracy and military rule. Fascism is often associated with totalitarian societies and the political works of Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco and Idi Amin. This evidently juxtaposes the foundations of Kant and Locke’s philosophies as it seeks to “bur(y) the putrid corpse of liberty” available to the general public. This quote is an accurate prefigure to his political objectives as, since, Musolini’s regimes have been described as “an enemy of the enlightenment and democracy” http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/lib/uqlib/reader.action?docID=10351594 and _____. …show more content…
Furthermore, in his 1932 ‘Doctrine of Facism’ he directly addresses fascist education and it’s objective to “create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views”. Musoilini’s educational policies “were ostensibly designed to compel citizen conformity” in addition to “evok(ing) the militaristic terminology and trappings of the old Roman