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No nation can become greater in which there are enormous masses condemned to the conditions of life of prehistoric humanity.
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
Our destiny cannot become universal unless it is transplanted to the pagan ground of Rome. By means of Paganism Rome found her form and found the means of upholding herself in the world.
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
We are syndicalists, because we think that by means of the mass it may be possible to determine an economic readjustment...
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
Our position is different as regards the Socialist Party. In the first place we are careful to make a distinction between party Socialism and the Socialism of Labour.
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
How does it come about that we are said to be sold to the middle class, capitalism and the Government? But already our enemies dare no longer continue this accusation, so false and ridiculous it is.
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
As Italy discovered America, so America and the rest of the New World must discover Italy, not only in the great towns, pulsating with life and humming with industry, but also in the country, where the humble labourers wait with quiet resignation for the dawn of a victorious and just peace to appear on the horizon.
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
We are one with the United States. This is Internationalism, the real, true and lasting Internationalism, even if it has not got the formulas, dogmas and chrism of Socialism made official. It is in the trenches, where soldiers of different nationalities have crossed six thousand leagues of ocean to come and die in Europe.
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
The Socialists, and I am still one, although an exasperated one, never brought forward the question of irredentism, but left it to the Republicans. We are in favour of a national war. But there are also reasons, purely socialist in character, which spur us on towards intervention.
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
I think that within five or six months’ time there will be quite a few Socialists who will recognize that I am the only Socialist that there has been in Italy for the last five years; and I am not being paradoxical, even if I add that the Socialist Party on the whole is detestable.
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
We play upon every cord of the lyre, from violence to religion, from art to politics. We are politicians and we are warriors. We are syndicalists and we also fight battles in the streets and the squares. That is Fascismo as it was conceived at Milan...
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
The Electoral Reform will pass. The scrutiny of lists and proportional representation will pass. That will determine, for obvious reasons, the great coalitions—the Socialist-Leninist, the Clerical-Popular, and, lastly ours, which might be called the ‘Alliance for the Constituent,’ the Republican Alliance or the group of the ‘interveners’ of the Left.
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)