No Mussolini ?

Let's imagine that Benito Mussolini is killed during WW1 and, as a result, he's not there to structure the fascist movement. What happens next, in 1922, around the time of the Biennio Rosso ? Does another far right movement emerges in Italy ? Does the military takes power ? Does someone else takes the mantle of alt-fascism and militarism ? Does democracy remains in Italy ?
 
Probably some far-left or far-right movement would take power sooner or latter. Italy suffered greatly in WW1 and it didn't that what it wanted.
 
by the end of biennio rosso the communist chance to start a revolution or even take power by election was extremely scarce and the only other leader capable of uniting the various and very diverse faction of the far right was D'Annunzio, but unlike Benny he was hardly a skilled politician and totally uninterested to the day to day hard work to make the state and political machine working, plus he was seen more as a revolutionary while Mussolini like someone you can work with (aka controlled...yeah sure) so if he try something like the March on Rome the goverment will answer with violence.
Said that it was a very unstable period for Italy and the most probable evolution will be a sometime as an authoritarian democracy directely appointed by the King, probably headed by General Diaz
 
Italy is always a odd case in these kind of settings. The March on Rome was a gigantic bluff that only worked because the King and the establishment were more scared by the socialist/communist, and let Mussolini into power thinking it wasn't a big deal...

We know how wrong he was in that.

Italy likely be in a state of political limbo till a strongman takes power. Armando Diaz comes to mind with the blessing of the King. It still be upset over not getting what London and Paris promised it for joining the Great War and look to expand its power and influence. Only this time you have someone who would know how to do it and not the bag of hot air that was Mussolini.

Worst case, you have an civil war between a Industrial Red North vs Catholic and Conservative South.
 
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