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Quotes from Mussolini — Denis Mack Smith

1920–2017 England

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Mussolini had once belonged to the Bolshevik wing of the Italian Socialist party and still in 1924 confessed admiration for Lenin, while Trotsky was quoted as saying that Mussolini was his best pupil.

Mussolini (1983)

Lenin was the contemporary politician whom [Mussolini] most admired and he studied the Russian revolution closely to see what lessons it offered. Lenin seemed to him ‘the very negation of socialism’ because he had not created a dictatorship of the proletariat or of the socialist party, but only of a few intellectuals who had found the secret of winning power. Mussolini was, in truth, envious.

Mussolini (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Denis Mack Smith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.