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Quotes from The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism — L. K. Samuels

born 1951 United States

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The economics of Italian Fascism is often ignored or trivialized because so much of it is found in today’s world economies.

The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism (2015)

One could argue that Lenin’s politics were the first modern-day version of fascism and state-corporatism.

The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism (2015)

Socialism seeks to abolish capitalism outright, while fascism gives the appearance of a market-based economy, even though it relies heavily on the central planning of all economic activities.

The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism (2015)

Mussolini found much of John Maynard Keynes’s economic theories consistent with fascism.

The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism (2015)

In essence, Mussolini’s fascism was simply an imitation of Lenin’s “third way,” which combined market-based mechanisms and socialism—similar to Red China’s “market socialism.”

The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism (2015)

Mussolini doubled the number of Italian bureaucrats under an enormous bureaucracy of committees. By 1934, one Italian in five worked for the government.

The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism (2015)

In essence, the economics of Italian Fascism was Marxist and syndicalist-inspired—and far more left-wing socialist than the economies of many current western nations that embrace a mixed economy of socialism, welfarism and unionism.

The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism (2015)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: L. K. Samuels (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.