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Fascism has become the last defence of a crumbling economic system. It is the last bulwark of Capitalism.

— Hugh Gaitskell Notes for Lecturers to the LLY [Labour League of Youth (1938)

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It must be admitted that politically communism is the same [as fascism].

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I was a witness of two civil wars and their ghastly and tragic consequences, and I learnt, as never before, to value the freedom of British political traditions.

The destruction of this inequality, the creating and maintaining of a society in which it cannot exist becomes the essential and direct purpose of all Socialist activity.

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