Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician and activist who fought for the unification of Italy, and was therefore an important figure in the Italian revolutionary movement. Mazzini was also an important theorist who had a profound influence on world politics. One of Mazzini's most important ideas was the need to rid the country of the evils of aristocracy. Mazzini believed that the aristocracy was the source of corruption, and that it had no place in a modern state. He also believed that hereditary monarchy was the embodiment of despotism.
