A. James Gregor - Fascist Quotes

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By the end of the 1960's, Soviet theoreticians were prepared to argue that the 'Chinese leadership' had transformed itself into an 'anti-Marxist, anti-socialist, chauvinistic and anti-Soviet... bourgeois-nationalistic' movement of reaction... In their account, Soviet thinkers had recourse to the same list of descriptive traits that Western academics had employed for some considerable time to identify fascist political and social systems.

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By 1938, Mussolini could confidently assert that 'in the face of the total collapse of the system [bequeathed] by Lenin, Stalin has covertly transformed himself into a Fascist.'

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The first Fascists were almost all Marxists—serious theorists who had long been identified with Italy's intelligentsia of the Left.

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Neither Stalinism nor Fascist totalitarianism would have been possible without the transmogrified Marxism, that infilled both.

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Between 1862 and 1922, the Italian government had disbursed sixty million lire for school construction; between 1922 and 1942, the Fascist government devoted 400 million lire of public monies to the enterprise. The total expenditure on education rose from 922.4 million lire in the financial year 1922-23 to 1,636 million lire for 1936-37. In 1930 there were 110,200 public elementary schools while the number, by 1935, had risen to 126,934.

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Fascist social welfare legislation compared favorably with the more advanced European nations and in some respect was more progressive.

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By the time of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Marxist theoreticians had begun to evaluate fascism in a totally unanticipated fashion... More than that, as Marxist theorists were compelled to reinterpret fascism in the light of empirical evidence and political circumstances, the fundamental affinities shared by Marxist and fascist regimes became apparent.

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That Mussolini chose Gentile to author the philosophical portion of Fascism's official doctrine provides evidence of the confidence Fascists entertained with respect to Gentile's thought.

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