Alessandro Mussolini was the father of Italian Fascist founder and leader Benito Mussolini.
Career
Mussolini was a blacksmith by profession. Mussolini was married to Rosa Maltoni, a schoolteacher, who became the mother of Benito Mussolini. In 1874, Mussolini took part in political disturbances in Predappio, Italy.
Mussolini was ill-tempered towards his opponents and in 1878, police warned Mussolini to cease threatening his opponents with the destruction of their property.
Mussolini believed that the government should control the mode of production, that working conditions needed to be improved, and supported the creation of a society run by the working-class.
Politics
He was an Italian revolutionary socialist activist with Italian nationalist sympathies. Mussolini exercised considerable influence over his son Benito"s early political beliefs, even naming his son Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini after three socialist leaders: Benito Juárez, Amilcare Cipriani, and Andrea Costa. Mussolini entered politics in 1873 at the age of nineteen as a revolutionary socialist militant.
Mussolini held Italian nationalist sentiments and idolized Italian nationalist figures with socialist or humanist tendencies such as Carlo Pisacane, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Alessandro Mussolini"s political outlook combined the views of anarchist figures like Carlo Cafiero and Mikhail Bakunin, the military authoritarianism of Garibaldi, and the nationalism of Mazzini.
Membership
Mussolini became a member of local government and was known by authorities for controversy and political violence against opponents.