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Whatever one thinks of his Marxism today, Mussolini was accepted by his socialist peers as a Marxist theoretician. He rose to leadership in the Italian Socialist Party at least in part on the basis of his recognized capacity as a socialist intellectual.

— A. James Gregor The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism (1969)

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