Fascism, with its habitual use of the language of aggression—not for nothing did Mussolini regularly rejoice in his own savagery, seeing himself as a cat who walked by itself at night ready to scratch, claw and kill—deeply tinctured such thoughts and assumptions. Yet Fascism did not by itself create its bleakly Darwinian view of the functioning of the international system.

— R.J.B. Bosworth Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 (2005)

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