“[Italian] Fascism was a variant of classical Marxism, a believe system that pressed some themes argued by both Marx and Engels until they found expression in the form of ‘national syndicalism’ that was to animate the first Fascism.”

Source: Young Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism, (1979), p. xi

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