Mussolini as revealed in his political speeches

In the fearless militarism of the dramatic speech with which this volume begins, the Socialistic activity of Benito Mussolini ends-of Benito Mussolini, who from the autumn of 1914 could have been considered the recognised and acclaimed leader of the Italian Socialist Party. He had attained with giant strides the highest rank in the party's hierarchy, namely the editorship of the Avanti, the chief organ of the political and syndicalist movement. He had been a clever and aggressive writer in a weekly provincial paper of Forli, called La lotta di classe, [1] and an ardent Sunday orator for the "ville" of Romagna. He had revealed himself a "comrade" of tremendous power at the Congress of Reggio Emilia, held in the summer of 1912, where he delivered a memorable speech bitterly criticising the flaccid mentality of Reformism then dominating the party