Mussolini Quotes

“The popular definition of Fascism as right-wing is misleading even though Mussolini in 1922 described it as ‘of the right’.[257] The intellectual driving force behind it was left-wing. Most Fascists had either been Socialists or syndicalists. However right-wing the manifestations of Fascism became, its guiding star was always left. Its opposition to Socialism might be described as right-wing, its republican tendencies left-wing. Its opposition to the principle of parliamentary democracy might be described as right-wing, its opposition to the undemocratic reality of the Italian parliament left-wing. Its defence of private property was right-wing but its support for the big state to bridle Capitalism — its Corporate State — left-wing. Like”
― Nicholas Farrell, Mussolini

“But then, after a row with his mistress, d’Annunzio fell out of a window”
― Nicholas Farrell, Mussolini

“he was determined to give Marx a shot of Nietzsche in order to escape the straitjacket of Marxist determinism.”
― Nicholas Farrell, Mussolini

“knew”
― Nicholas Farrell, Mussolini

“imbroglio.”
― Nicholas Farrell, Mussolini