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Should one choose to seek out today’s fascism, one is counseled to look to the retrograde former Soviet Union, and the reformist People’s Republic of China. They are the natural hosts of a ‘resurgence’ of fascism.

— A. James Gregor Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism (2001)

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