Benito Mussolini on Social justice
← Back to Benito Mussolini ProfileFrom his island exile in 1945, a desperate Mussolini framed his fight as a proletarian revolution against wealthy nations, clinging to power against a tide of social justice.
“We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. The others are fighting to maintain the privileges of caste and class. We are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats.”
In a 1935 speech, Mussolini outlined Fascism's vision of social justice as guaranteed work, fair wages, and worker integration, contrasting it with capitalist power.
“Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nation… the object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people… What does social justice mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes, it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline… As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labour.”