“Mussolini was a well-informed and convinced Marxist. His ultimate political convictions represent a reform of classical Marxism in the direction of a restoration of its Hegelian elements.”

— A. James Gregor

Source: The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism, (1969), p. 333

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