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I think that within five or six months’ time there will be quite a few Socialists who will recognize that I am the only Socialist that there has been in Italy for the last five years; and I am not being paradoxical, even if I add that the Socialist Party on the whole is detestable.

— Benito Mussolini Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)

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