“In 1934, Mussolini reiterated that capitalism, as an economic system, was no longer viable. Fascist economy was to be based not on individual profit but on collective interest.”

— A. James Gregor

Source: The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism, (1969), p. 299

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