... enabled the Italian people to separate fact from fiction, and overthrow their Duce.> ECONOMIC WEALTH OF ABYSSINIA Editorial by Marcus Garvey in the Black Man [London, July/August 1936] ITALY'S CONQUEST? "We are now burying economic liberalism," Mussolini proclaimed in 1933. The end of laissez-faire had been by this stage accepted by most people. Mussolini's economic recovery was now to be fueled by the military state. Fascists liked to turn 'economic problems' into 'questions of will,' which was often another way of saying the leadership had no idea what to do next. Was Abysinnia another test of what Mussolini called 'La nostra feroce volunta totalitaria' (Our fierce totalitarian will). Fascism certainly brought its own style to the management of the economy - activist, heroic, militaristic: Mussolini's "Battle for wheat" was followed by a "Battle for Lira" a "campaign for the National Product," etc. As is often the case with fascism, the Italian State saw force as ...

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