Fascism is first and foremost a theory of force of action and violence Before Musolini became a fascist leader, he was a revolutionary socialist of Syndicalist type. Syndicalism taught that socialism could be achieved by “direct action” and “myth”. When Mussolini became a Fascist, he renounced and denounced socialism of his earlier Syndicalist faith, but remained true to its philosophy of “direct action” and “myth”. With him ‘direct action’ became a philosophy of unlimited force and violence at home and unlimited war abroad.<\/p>