A common denominator in great people

[Angrboda]

Immanuel Kant produced his most important work late in life. Until Critique he was a virtual unknown.

[Hatshepsut]

The Doctrine Of Fascism by Benito Mussolini...

...ghostwritten by Giovanni Gentile? Okay. I'll admit Mussolini had his 2¢ in. With stirring rhetoric such as "Fascism wants man to be active and to engage in action with all his energies; it wants him to be manfully aware of the difficulties besetting him...," he sounds almost like my doctor telling me to exercise.

Although I think you're right that Mussolini was more important to history than we credit him for. The Nazi rise might have been harder without him there. Plato is a little over my head with the cavebound folks watching the shadow show outside.

[Lemonvariable72]

The Doctrine Of Fascism by Benito Mussolini is an impressive work propaganda wise - If we are talking about theory we could discuss Platonism/Plato and people from a long time ago who had views that were close to what we consider fascism. I'm just saying Mussolini shaped the history of Europe in the XX century - All other fascists came after him. This was terrible but good because we learned a lot on how valuable freedom can be

Hitler would actually be a better candidate then mossulini. The reason being that Hitler was a far more cunning manipulator then mossulini. Of course several years ago I watched a interview with an Italian veteran and he made the rather interesting proposition that Mussolini's downfall had to do with the Italians national character.