A. James Gregor - Social 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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Gentile maintained, with Marx, that the 'essence' of man is not individual—but social. The human person is a function of a complex pattern of interactions with both nature and other persons in a law-and-rule-government environment. The human being is essentially a social creature (a Gemeinwesen)—and outside society, loses humanity.

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What should be recognized at this point is the fact that Mussolini, whatever else he was, was a collectivist, who conceived human beings as social animals. He had learned that man was a communal being from Marx.

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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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