Fascism was born in Milan on Sunday the 23rd of March, 1919. War veterans, syndicalists who had supported the war and Futurist intellectuals gathered in the meeting room of the Milan Industrial and Commercial Alliance, overlooking Piazza San Sepolcro, to "declare war against socialismÂ…because it has opposed nationalism." Mussolini called his movement the Fasci di Combattimento, which can be translated to "fraternities of combat." Fascism obtained its name and took its first steps in Italy, expressing nationalism, anti-capitalism, and active violence against both bourgeois and socialist enemies. The Fascist program, issued two months later, was an inquisitive combination of patriotism and radical socialism. On the national side, Fascism called for Italian expansion in the Balkans and around the Mediterranean. On the radical side, the movement proposed a reduction of the age of voters to eighteen years, abolition of the upper house, convocation of a national assembly to draft......
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