... management. Indeed, the government quickly aligned with big business, creating more of a corrupt bureaucracy than a revolutionary economy. Mussolini secured some working-class assent with state-sponsored programs, including massive public-works projects, library building, paid vacations for workers, and social security. In 1929, he settled Italy's sixty-year-old con- flict with the Roman Catholic Church. He signed a treaty that granted ... religious certainties, and some people find this alarming (they suffer from what is termed cultural despair, angst, or anomie), so they create substi...

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