Challenge: Socialist Italy instead of Fascist

Can Italy be truly Socialist instead of Fascist? It would be interesting to have something besides Fascism and Stalinism(perhaps something like Syndicalism?). So, can Mussoloni be defeated?
 
He might not necessarily need to be defeated - didn't Mussolini have strong ties with Socialist parties at some point? Events might cause him to shift ideology.
 
Yes, however the reason he became Fascist probably can't be changed(think he was disillusioned with Socialism because he thought it wouldn't succeed in the long run.)
 
Can Italy be truly Socialist instead of Fascist? It would be interesting to have something besides Fascism and Stalinism(perhaps something like Syndicalism?). So, can Mussoloni be defeated?

Defeated yes surely, the king can send the order to the army to squash the march on Rome and with basically all the leadership of the Fascist party here they are toasted, more simply get the Mussolini killed during the war or make his numerous affair know to the general public (as even fatherd a child out of wedlock) so destroying is political career as without him to unite all the different faction is doubtfoul that fascism will be strong enough to beat the socialist.
The problem is that if the army will attack with a lot of regret the fascist, it will have much less problem with the socialist who want get rid of the monarchy so we can have the looming threat of a civil war that the socialist are not assured to win.
 

Wolfpaw

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Mussolini also disagreed with the classist and anti-militarist/pacifist aspects of socialism, so he drifted towards syndicalism.
 
Okay, get him assassinated, and then have the Socialists fill the vacuum. The monarchy couldn't have lasted, if the social problems of the time are to judge.
 
If Italy could be on the losing side, Socialism might just break out. Italian Civil war. The North would be the stronghold for the Socialists and the South would remain royalist.
 
If Italy could be on the losing side, Socialism might just break out. Italian Civil war. The North would be the stronghold for the Socialists and the South would remain royalist.

I'm not so sure. It's true that the socialists didn't make much headway in the south, but this doesn't mean the area was pro-monarchy. Garibaldi had plenty of support there, after all.
 
Yes but by the 1920's the South was particularly loyal to the Monarchy of Italy. The socialists would have to try to take Rome of course and the Kingdom's troops would probably regroup in Naples.
 
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