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Economic Improvement Initiative: No
Recompensation for Injustice Act: No
Italian Liberation Act: Abstain
Aurelia Muti Act: Yes
1923 Budget: Yes
Prevention and Punishment Act: No
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: No
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: No
Compensation for the Highborn Act: No


[Militarist]
[Il Bombarolo!: +5% PP]
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Newspapers say stuff, most of it outrageous:

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Failed Artist once again annoys Parliament!
"And 'Tuttobruciato' ain't even a word anyway!" says local Grammar Fascist.

Since the end of the Amat Dictatorship the poor artist Dom Contravarius (one of them, you know? They're all named the same apparently) has not been very successful at bringing his art to the Italian people (some blame the lack of good taste of the peasant masses, others the fact that flayed nuns are just a horrible thing to see and only Government's funds kept Contravarius' art alive), and this seems to have sparked in Contravarius a desperate quest for attention and celebrity. First he ran as main Right-winger candidate in the Presidential elections of 1921, and failed to even beat the Liberal candidate What's-his-Name, then he occupied the area before the Parliament demanding to be arrested by a cruelly apathetic police force and selling donuts to the general population, and now he's presenting increasingly bizarre laws to the Parliament.
Dom Contravarius clearly just wants our attention.

We of this esteemed Journalistic organization can no longer tolerate to see an artist reducing himself so lowly, especially because it's getting quite annoying right now, and have organized a charity where our readers may donate to give Contravarius a new place where to hang his weird shit art and know that he is truly getting the same attention he used to have in the days of the Amat regime, so that he may finally stop pestering the political and social establishment with his new ideas.
Or maybe he won't because he's just nuts, I don't know.

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In other news: Penguins launch surprise attack on Canada, Russia, Scandinavia! Mankind on the brink of extinction!
"Penguins aren't supposed to come from the North Pole, you ignorant gits!" comments British Chief of Staff and famous ornithologist.
 
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Economic Improvement Initiative: Yes
Recompensation for Injustice Act: Yes
Italian Liberation Act: Yes
Aurelia Muti Act: No
1923 Budget: Abstain
Prevention and Punishment Act: No
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: Yes
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: Yes
Compensation for the Highborn Act: Yes

[Militarist]
[Judicial Legacy, +5%]


...It truly is worrying that this government is so keen on having the power to use highly dangerous technologies against its own people. Have we not learned from the death and suffering of the Italian Civil War that the terror of chemical weaponry is not something which the Italian Government should ever subject to its own people? The usage of chemical weapons is, as it stands, a dishonorable act, although such a lack of true martial spirit is to be expected from an Italian military which lacks a true command structure, due in great part to the effective purge of the former Italian Officers Corps as an effect of harsh Anti-Nationalist policy following the Civil War.

V.M. Pedrotti
 
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Economic "Improvement" Initiative: No
Recompensation for "Injustice" Act: No
Italian Liberation Act: No - This isn't an Act. It is an ill-conceived plot to force a war on an army and a country that will have no say in conducting it.
Muti Act: Aye
Budget: Aye
Prevention and Punishment Act: No
Denial Act: No
Gas Act: No
Compensation Act: No

[Militarist]
[Ain't got jack]

War Minister Roncalli's plans are approved, and the divisions he constructs will be added in numerical order to the currently empty commands listed on the 1920 Order of Battle and positioned primarily along the Austrian and French borders, with emphasis on the former.

- Lorenzo Cuomo, M. della Repubblica, Chief of Staff of the PRA
 
Economic "Improvement" Initiative: No
Recompensation for "Injustice" Act: No
Italian Liberation Act: No
Muti Act: Aye
Budget: Aye
Prevention and Punishment Act: No
Denial Act: No
Gas Act: No
Compensation Act: No

[Militarist]
[None]
 
((Tally. Everything failing but the Muti Act and the budget.))

Aristocrats: [1]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 0/1/0 [0, 1, 0]
1923 Budget: 0/1/0 [0, 1, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]

Industrialists: [31]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
1923 Budget: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]

Terraferma: [34]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
1923 Budget: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]

Nodscouterr & mrlifeless: [9]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
1923 Budget: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]

Militarists: [18]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 2/3/0 [36, 54, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 2/3/0 [36, 54, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 2/2/1 [36, 36, 18]
Aurelia Muti Act: 3/2/0 [54, 36, 0]
1923 Budget: 3/1/1 [54, 18, 18]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/5/0 [0, 90, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 2/3/0 [36, 54, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 2/3/0 [36, 54, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 2/3/0 [36, 54, 0]

Andre Massena: [17]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 1/0/0 [17, 0, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 1/0/0 [17, 0, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/1/0 [0, 17, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 0/1/0 [0, 17, 0]
1923 Budget: 0/1/0 [0, 17, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 1/0/0 [17, 0, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 1/0/0 [17, 0, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/1/0 [0, 17, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 1/0/0 [17, 0, 0]

Labor Leaders: [65]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 0/1/0 [0, 65, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 0/1/0 [0, 65, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/1/0 [0, 65, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 1/0/0 [65, 0, 0]
1923 Budget: 1/0/0 [65, 0, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/1/0 [0, 65, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 0/1/0 [0, 65, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/1/0 [0, 65, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 0/1/0 [0, 65, 0]

TJDS and Dadarian: [74]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 0/2/0 [0, 148, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 0/2/0 [0, 148, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/2/0 [0, 148, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 2/0/0 [148, 0, 0]
1923 Budget: 2/0/0 [148, 0, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/2/0 [0, 148, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 0/2/0 [0, 148, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/1/1 [0, 74, 74]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 0/2/0 [0, 148, 0]

Antigov Demagogues: [11]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
1923 Budget: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 0/0/0 [0, 0, 0]

Otto of england: [12]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 1/0/0 [12, 0, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 1/0/0 [12, 0, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 1/0/0 [12, 0, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 0/1/0 [0, 12, 0]
1923 Budget: 0/1/0 [0, 12, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/1/0 [0, 12, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 1/0/0 [12, 0, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 1/0/0 [12, 0, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 1/0/0 [12, 0, 0]

Progov Demagogues: [1]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 0/2/0 [0, 2, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 0/2/0 [0, 2, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/2/0 [0, 2, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 2/0/0 [2, 0, 0]
1923 Budget: 2/0/0 [2, 0, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/2/0 [0, 2, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 0/2/0 [0, 2, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/0/2 [0, 0, 2]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 0/2/0 [0, 2, 0]

Bonus: [0]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 0/60/0 [0, 0, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 0/60/0 [0, 0, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/60/0 [0, 0, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 60/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
1923 Budget: 60/0/0 [0, 0, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 0/60/0 [0, 0, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 0/60/0 [0, 0, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/0/60 [0, 0, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 0/60/0 [0, 0, 0]

Politicians: [1]

Economic Improvement Initiative: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Italian Liberation Act: 0/1/0 [0, 1, 0]
Aurelia Muti Act: 0/1/0 [0, 1, 0]
1923 Budget: 0/1/0 [0, 1, 0]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 0/1/0 [0, 1, 0]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 1/0/0 [1, 0, 0]

Totals:
Economic Improvement Initiative: 6/8/0 [74, 430, 0] [14.7%]
Recompensation for Injustice Act: 6/8/0 [74, 430, 0] [14.7%]
Italian Liberation Act: 4/9/1 [49, 457, 18] [9.7%]
Aurelia Muti Act: 8/6/0 [430, 74, 0] [85.3%]
1923 Budget: 8/5/1 [430, 54, 18] [88.8%]
Prevention and Punishment Act: 3/11/0 [21, 507, 0] [4.0%]
Denial of Tuttobruciato Law: 6/8/0 [74, 430, 0] [14.7%]
Gasbombing the Civilians Act: 4/7/3 [49, 232, 122] [17.4%]
Compensation for the Highborn Act: 6/8/0 [74, 430, 0] [14.7%]
 
((Voting is now closed. Unfortunately there is no update tonight as I have had no word from TJDS, but I will update by tomorrow at the latest regardless.))
 
ThunderHawk3 said:
((Voting is now closed. Unfortunately there is no update tonight as I have had no word from TJDS, but I will update by tomorrow at the latest regardless.))
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((What about his goons minions ministers?))
 
LatinKaiser said:
((What about his goons minions ministers?))
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((When I was on IRC about three hours ago, there were no representatives from the government at all in the chat, so I decided to postpone the update.))
 
ThunderHawk3 said:
((When I was on IRC about three hours ago, there were no representatives from the government at all in the chat, so I decided to postpone the update.))
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I'm on the farm, sorry.
 
((TH3, if it helps, I am around if you want to PM but I can't access Coldfront.))
 
Di Cervo 1923-1925: The Great Leap Forward​


Di Cervo began his second term of office in January of 1923. Despite a general assumption that he would send his political enemies into exile, there was little change to his cabinet. The sole change that the general public took any notice of was a shakeup in the finance ministry - resultant disorganization in that ministry would delay the government's proposal of a new budget. When the new budget finally was proposed, it was much like the last one.

For his part, Di Cervo would spend much of the first three years of his new term beating back his critics. Though the opposition had hardly increased their opposition in the parliament, they had become much more vocal and bold as Di Cervo's image internal to the CSI had suffered. The conservative right, perhaps finally deciding that the Lega was gone and they needed a new way to contest the general elections, formed a new party. The FDL continued to berate Di Cervo on the economy and a lack of financial freedom. And of course, there was always the issue of Krakow. Di Cervo's re-election guaranteed that the Italians would back Polish efforts to seize Krakow. Though Italy never committed any troops, the war ended quickly. The hopelessly outnumbered People's Army of Krakow was defeated by the Polish Royal Army in the Battle of Krakow, fought January 1st to 19th, 1923, and surrendered three weeks later at Bielsko. Poland announced the annexation of Krakow on March 24th, which was recognized by all European powers including Italy. Di Cervo would be even more severely criticized when the Fascists came to power in Poland several months later.


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1. Fascist Poland's troops occupy Krakow​

For the national ministry, the years of 1923, 1924, and 1925 would largely be defined by the pursuit of two conflicting goals - rapid industrialization and military modernization. The former gained far more attention domestically and internationally, and was largely prosecuted by the powerful Commerce and Industry Minister, Antonio Camilleri. Camilleri - perhaps under pressure from above - would end his New Economic Policy in 1923. He would claim that the NEP had achieved partial success but could not continue due to the complacency of capitalistic factory managers, who were not expanding the nation's industrial base.

The FDL would strongly deny this, instead arguing that the NEP had become unworkable - the government, they said, had raised effective taxes on collective profits and managers so high that profits from expanding industry were paltry, and in many cases no workers were available as the Interior Ministry funnelled manpower into the military. They also said that the Di Cervo administration had essentially stopped all private investment, pointing to a recent episode where industrialists had started construction of several factories. When Di Cervo had learned about the private construction, he had immediately demanded that they either join a collective or abandon the project - the project had consequently been abandoned, crushing any hope of private enterprise in socialist Italy. (A privately owned stock exchange opened in Gaeta in 1924 but, as there were no domestic joint stock companies, it traded only foreign stocks.)

Whatever the reason, Camilleri radically switched tactics, bringing the whole nation's industrial base under direct oversight and ordering a large series of centrally planned factory constructions and enlargements. Quotas were set and raised, manufacturing lines planned, and more and more production ordered. At the same time, the Secretariat for railroads under Constantino continued its aggressive rennovation of the nation's railroad and port system. The intention was to bring Italian industrial output up to western European standards - Camilleri called this ambitious undertaking The Great Leap Forward.


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2. Factories in Italy circa 1923​

Italy was dramatically lagging its neighbors in industrialization - well under 10% of the Italian population were factory workers, while the majority of Italian workers were farmers. Camilleri's efforts to close this gap would bring him into substantial conflict with the War Ministry and the General Staff, who had enthusiastically declared that they wished to raise ten new divisions for the military (which would have amounted to about half a million soldiers, not including auxiliaries and necessary support infrastructure, etc.). This led to the Commerce Ministry aggressively competing with the War Ministry for manpower (as well as raw materials). Perniciaro's Internal Affairs ministry would prove apathetic to the Commerce Ministry's goals and heavily back the military, funnelling enlisted men and officers into military.

In fact, the War Ministry and the General Staff would not succeed in raising ten new divisions (at the end of 1925, they had only succeeded in raising part of one new division), but ran great guns in terms of modernization. Aided by the Education ministry, the General Staff would adopt new weapons, new tactics, and new doctrines at speed. The military's Aeroplane Design Bureau would devise Italy's first military aircraft in 1923, which Vito Roncalli would rush to the front. By 1925, Italy would have two "aviation regiments," with five more being organized and another three planned. Italy's tank forces were also replaced throughout 1923 to modernize them, and the general staff abandoned the outdated corps organization in favor of modern divisional structure - the result was that Italy's armed forces appeared more modern than ever, and were rapidly closing the gap with the likes of France and Germany.

Meanwhile, the Great Leap Forward was proceeding at speed, regardless of whether or not the interior ministry was willing to back the effort. The collectives struggled to meet the construction targets that Camilleri had set for them. The ambitious nationwide construction projects - railroads, ports, and factories - consumed Italy's entire supply of cement, timber, and steel and then some. Goods shortages worsened as everything was diverted to construction and Italy's limited reserves of hard currency were devoted to buying expensive imports of electrical machinery and capital goods from Germany, Britain, and America for the new factories and rolling stock. Consumer goods were no longer being imported. (The Italian lira was largely no longer accepted overseas or traded on international markets.) Even so, not all planned construction could go forward. Ground had not even been broken on a planned aeroplane factory in Venezia in 1925, as the project managers were still trying to gather the necessary materials and machinery.


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3. Backyard furnaces in Italy. Italian industrial cadres would encourage construction of "backyard" smelters in the 1920s to alleviate severe steel shortages, which hampered The Great Leap Forward.​


Throughout, the Commerce Ministry came to feel that the President's office was working against them. Increased quotas caused labor unrest in 1924, and Di Cervo inevitably backed the trade unions. Moreover, he supported the allocation of manpower to the military.

Nevertheless, by 1926, Camillieri had good reason to say that The Great Leap Forward had largely succeeded. Industrial output had increased 20% from 1923 levels, an average increase of 7% a year for three years (most of the growth was actually in 1925 as new factories opened). The number of kilometers of railroad in Italy had doubled - in northern Italy, the most highly developed part of the country - infrastructure was beginning to look like its South German counterparts. Nevertheless, Italy had a long way to go. Industrial production had been 15% higher under Amat. Italian representatives still were not being invited to important international conferences, and Italian industrial production only barely exceeded that of Belgium; it lagged the Ottoman Empire and was just half the output of Canada - a quarter that of France - a tenth that of Germany. Only 8% of the Italian population were factory workers.

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4. Pictured - horse-drawn farming equipment, a common sight in Italy.​
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Moreover, the Great Leap Forward was not exactly popular, as increasingly large numbers of people were getting fed up with all these shortages and quotas. Some party bosses feared that popular unhappiness with the government would generate a backlash from which the CSI would not recover. Omninously, Legio activities in Italy were becoming more and more visible, with the fascists opening offices, soup kitchens, and organizing blackshirt groups - all of which Di Cervo chose to ignore rather than rock the boat.

But, the CSI said, all of this was necessary sacrifice if Italy wanted to become a modern, industrialized socialist nation - and to catch up to its neighbors, The Great Leap Forward would have to continue.

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FLI Collective

Campania Small Arms: 0
Campania Winery: 0
Emilia Lumber: 0
Emilia Machine Parts: 7665
Emilia Canned Food: 11680
Emilia Radio: 0
Sicilian Fertilizer: 4380
Sicilian Explosives: 29200
Lazio Ammmunition: 25550
Piemonte Winery: 0
Puglia Paper: 21170
Puglia Winery: 0
Puglia Canned Food: 18980
Romagna Liquor: 8395
Romagna Canned Food: 8760
Sardegna Ammunition: 18615
Toscana Canned Food: 20075
Toscana Steel: 17155

Gross Profit: 191625
Corporate Tax: -182043
Net Profit: ~9600

BP Collective

Emilia Liquor: 16790
Sicilian Artillery: 58035
Lazio Regular Clothes: 11315
Lazio Luxury Furniture: 0
Lazio Luxury Clothes: 33945
Lombardia Machine Parts: 365
Lombardia Steel: 365
Lombardia Winery: 0
Lombardia Telephone: 0
Piemonte Fabric: 86505
Piemonte Fertilizer: 4745
Piemonte Ammunition: 26645
Puglia Steamship: 0
Romagna Fabric: 0
Romagna Regular Clothes: 2190
Sardegna Liquor: 10585
Sardegna Glass: 30295
Toscana Small Arms: 0
Toscana Winery: 0

Gross Profit: 281780
Corporate Tax: -267691
Net Profit: ~14100

IMI Collective

Campania Regular Clothes: 27010
Campania Fabric: 22265
Sicilian Winery: 0
Campania Luxury Clothes: 47450
Lazio Steel: 21900
Lazio Winery: 0
Piemonte Liquor: 32120
Piemonte Canned Food: 19710
Puglia Glass: 25550
Romagna Small Arms: 0
Savoie Cement: 25185
South Tirol Lumber: 0
Toscana Cement: 25185
Venezia Aeroplane: 0

Gross Profit: 246375
Corporate Tax: -234056
Net Profit: ~12300

Nuove Industria del Popolo (NIP)

Campania Cement: 29565
Emilia Ammunition: 28835
Lazio Artillery: 82125
Lombardia Fuel: 0
Lombardia Dyes: 8030
Lombardia Electrical Parts: 21900
Piemonte Regular Clothes: 20440
Puglia Fertilizer: 2190
Puglia Ammunition: 29200
Sardegna Cement: 52560
Savoie Paper: 1095
Savoie Liquor: 10220
Savoie Regular Clothes: 0
South Tirol Steel: 0
South Tirol Small Arms: 0
Toscana Glass: 14600
Toscana Automobile: 1095
Toscana Tank: 0

Gross Profit: 301855
Corporate Tax: -286762
Net Profit: ~15100

Total Corporate Tax Due: 970552 (less tax efficiency)
 
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Niccolo Publishes the following article in a popular liberal newspaper

The Rise and Fall of Italian Industry
By: Niccolo Cavalier-Salvatore

Italy has never had a good relation with industry, be it major industrial families, or industrial workers. Neither group has prospered and both live a sub par standard compared to people of similar status in foreign countries. This hostility began early on in major steam powered industry when the Italian right wing, lead by the prominent Bonaretti and Amat dynasties fearing their power and influence being encroached u[on by new comers. The right wing hostility lead to a slowed industrial growth and a rift between the industrialists and right wing. The effect of this is akin to given a marathon runner a 5 kilo weight, possible to overcome, but a potentially crippling disadvantage. Even with this handicap the industrial families such as the Cavalieri's, Ferrabino's, Admic's and the Camilleri's managed to carve out an Italian industry that while weak was far from stillborn. By the mid 1870's Industry was on the rise and many were hopeful that Italy could become a major industrial power and a strong international player. Until the turmoil started.

The cause of the turmoil which led tot he decline of Italy across the board is hard to pin point, many argue that XXXXX di Susa (the Deputy Minister between 1882 and 1884) actions were the, powder, fuse and spark to the 1884 revolution - which inevitably would lead to the Socialists taking power. The Socialists led by Orazio di Antico had been frustrated with their inability to effect anything for so long and the moment they got power they went too far too fast. The taxes and industrial regulations, stuffed down the industrialists throats and tantamount to theft directly caused the infamous 'lockout' leading to all industrial production stopping. The next moves though, had little to due with di Antico, though he did have the ability to prevent what would happen. L'Alleanza one of the ministers of his cabinet used a radical idea, to encourage the workers to seize the factories from their owners and turn them over the government - which worked remarkable if you ignore the many of thousands killed in the process. Now this also had a very logical and easy to foresee side affect, the collapse of society as every property owner in the nation feared for a force government take over at the hands of a mob. This break down is what we now call the 1887 anarchy, the point in which Italy started its backward slide.

Following the anarchy their were several right wing dictatorships, a few attempted socialist counter-counter-revolutions, the odd counter-counter-counter-revolution propagated by the right a few more anarchies and finally an anti climatic civil war. In this time period which stretched nearly 30 years industrial growth slowed down heavily, as workers often died faster then new ones could be trained, factories were destroyed, denationalized, denationalized, denationalized, etc. This is the time frame in which Socialists site the industrial leaders 'horded' their money, which if one were to place themselves in the shoes of the venture capitalist, would you invest in a market in which you will not likely earn a profit before you lose your factory? Of course not, nobody spends money on things that are a net monetary loss unless those things are needed, such as food, housing, clothing, etc. and even those things can be justified as needed to have a monetary income and thus an investment which ultimately earns itself back. By the end of the Italian civil war the damage had been done and countries such as Canada, a post colonial puppet state had a higher industrial output then Italy, as embarrassing as it can get. Now what did the Socialist government respond to this? Nationalization. The same ham fisted answer they always give, and combining this with the theft like stealing of profit from private sector factories Amelia Camilleri killed all hope of private investment in Italy, and finally caused the wealthy to fear having all of their assets seized seeing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of assets leaving the country, to likely never return.

Amelia Camilleri program of government control seems promising now, and it may be promising int he future, but it will fail. Maybe not in our life time, but it is only a matter of time a man incompetent get's the job of total industrial control Amelia Camilleri has created for himself and fails at it. With a government controlled industry you lack competition, you lack innovation, you luck choice of selection. A planned economy is an attractive after what we have recently experienced, but anything is compared to death and destruction. Private industry built Italy, and without private Industry Italy's industrial growth is unsustainable, for you will rarely find men who desire to micromanage thousands of factories as efficiently as someone whose financial weal being depends upon it. For the flaw with national industry is the government has a fixed wage, the capitalist makes what he earns. If the capitalist does well he makes a lot, and thus is incentivised to try his best at running his company, someone under a fixed paycheck payed by the tax payers will rarely be that motivated.
 
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Name: Massimo Alfonso Bonaretti
Date of Birth: July 22, 1884
Birthplace: Sardinia
Class: Demagogue ((switching from militarist))
Bio:

When the Bonarettis fled to Sardinia after being stripped of their lands by Napoleon in 1800, Lucenzo Bonaretti built a home in Alghero, Sardinia. With Napoleon's downfall, the Bonarettis returned to Nizza and their titles and lands were restored to them by Victor Emmanuel I. On Lucenzo's death, the Bonaretti Estate passed to Giacomo and the Alghero Estate passed to Giacomo's younger brother, Alfonso.

Unlike Giacomo, Alfonso did not participate much in politics and mostly kept to himself. He started another branch of the family as he passed the estate to his son, who passed it to his son, and so on. In 1887, Roberto Bonaretti inherited the Alghero Estate. He anticipated a modest, staid life running the quiet estate. However, the First Anarchy soon struck. The family lands were spared, though the island saw much bloodshed. Within a few years the senior Bonaretti branch in Nizza had just whittled down to Rosa Bonaretti. After Rosa's passing the junior Bonaretti branch would then become the senior branch and inherit Nizza.

Fortune then took a bad turn for the family, however, with the second communist takeover. Noble titles were outlawed and the Sardinia branch could no longer legally obtain the ducal title. In 1924 Roberto died and passed his lands and wealth to his only son, Massimo. Massimo was an ambitious boy who was determined to elevate his family to greatness and gain just as much respect as the senior branch once possessed. He was educated at Tarantaise during the dictatorship period, where he was imbued with conservative values. However, unlike his ancestors, Massimo had little respect for the weak king and gravitated to Dictator Balbo, seeing him as the savior of the nation and a model for all governments to follow. He served for a brief time as a clerk in the Ministry of War under his kinsman, Duke Marco, and learned the arts of politics, statesmanship, and propaganda.

Massimo managed to escape the Communist Uprising and the fate of Marco Bonaretti as he was abroad in France on a mission for the Ministry of War. He became disgusted with politics after the fall of Balbo and returned to his home, bored. Massimo was disillusioned by what he saw as the weak policies of Amat and was not surprised when the government fell.

Now Massimo is leaving his home in Sardinia to enter politics on the mainland. He wishes to destroy the "corrupt sham of a government" that is poisoning Italy and install a great man in power that can rebuild Italy and her empire from the ashes. He believes that a social order is crucial to society and must be strictly enforced, as Italy can only prosper under rightist values. Masssimo also believes that democracy is a decadent invention that can only lead to madness and destruction. Though he desires an aristocratic title he is not a slave to the old system, which he believes needs to adopt to the modern tenants of the fascist-Balboist movement in order to restore Italy's greatness.
 
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