Perhaps I Should Just Quit Calling Myself a Fascist, After All

Still Corporativist, still pro-life, but the following is pretty damning:

Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to island internment colonies and small villages in southern Italy. ... The Fascist state ruled Italy violently, projecting its coercive power deeply and diffusely into society through confinement, imprisonment, low-level physical assaults, economic deprivations, intimidation, discrimination and other quotidian forms of coercion. ... Fascist repression was thus more intense and ideological than previously thought and even shared some important similarities with Nazi and Soviet terror.

Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy
https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/article/ordinary-violence-in-mussolini-s-italy

Syracuse University reviews:

Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy
Michael R. Ebner, Syracuse University, New York | Cambridge University Press | print, 2010 | online, July 2014
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ordinary-violence-in-mussolinis-italy/72F9733BEA00C0574F68E9CC475F96F3

I note, to my defense, that March on Rome to 1926 was different, and that Squadrista violence initially had some reasons, in defense against the Biennio Rosso ... but stopped too late. Mussolini himself noted that in the Matteotti hearing on January 3rd 1925./HGL