“Italy is not a capitalist country according to the meaning now conventionally assigned to that term.”

— Benito Mussolini

Address to the National Corporative Council (November 14, 1933), in A Primer of Italian Fascism, edited/translated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp (2000) p 160.
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