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Fascism issued from the 'Bolshevik' wing of Italian socialism, not from any conservative ideology or movement.

— Richard Pipes Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1995)

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Bolshevism and Fascism were heresies of socialism.

Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994)

Lenin wanted power. This may sound self-evident; after all, every politician is assumed to lust for power. But deep down, Lenin’s rivals did not want it.

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Moscow’s insistence that ‘fascism’ was the polar opposite of ‘communism’ found wide acceptance in socialist and liberal circles in the West.

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Nothing contributed more to the emergence of private property in the West and the rights associated with ownership than the appearance in the late Middle Ages of urban communities.

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We cannot determine whether or not he had met Lenin during their common exile in Switzerland; Mussolini once cryptically remarked: ‘Lenin knew me better than I knew him.’

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