Mussolini had made Italy into a modern state improving the economy and foreign policy. In theory Mussolini's power was unlimited. Italy was a one party state and Mussolini was leader of that party but there were some limitations to his power. Even though there was one party, Italy still remained officially a constitutional monarchy and was far less brutal and less totalitarian than its German, Soviet equivalent. Both King Vittorio Emmanuel III and the Pope could not ignored by Mussolini as he shared power with them. There are many interpretations and views about fascist Italy. The contemporary view states that Fascism was a reflection of the terminal condition of capitalism, and a last desperate attempt by the capitalists to hold onto power'. This was contradicted by revisionist view of Renzo de Felice was a controversial saying that the Fascist regime was genuinely popular'. The view also stated that Fascism helped to sustain the Italian republic since its creation in 1946'.
             Mussolini founded the Fasci di Combattimento on March of 1919. The origins of Fascism have also been debated with Fascism as a diversion and Fascism as revelation. In the 1940s a major debate developed over the place of Fascism in Italian history saying that Fascism was a form of disease which suddenly caused problems for Italy'. Others viewed Fascism as revelation' and Fascism was a logical consequence of the way that Italy was unified that came with its resultant weaknesses.
             Italian books on Mussolini and Fascism during the period divide into two groups, the Fascist and the anti-Fascist, which for most was written abroad by political exiles. There are many views of Fascist Italy. They include: Fascism as a general product of mass society, Fascism as totalitarian, Fascism as an agent of Capitalism, Fascism as an agent of modernisation, Fascism as the creation of one man, Mussolini and Fascism as the product of deep trends in Italian histor...