"[Mussolini] forcibly denounced those socialists who thought religion a matter for individual conscience or had their …"

"[Mussolini] brought a radical Marxist strand to the Avanti! newspaper, soon doubling its circulation. With a growing …"

"The election [of 1919] indicated that the prevailing sentiment in the country was to the left and Mussolini acknowled…"

"Lenin was the contemporary politician whom [Mussolini] most admired and he studied the Russian revolution closely to …"

"Mussolini had once belonged to the Bolshevik wing of the Italian Socialist party and still in 1924 confessed admirati…"

"The Mussolini of 1944 reasserted the socialist beliefs of his youth because he now felt that he had been cheated by t…"

"Bombacci had once been a friend and disciple of Lenin and revived the story that, according to Lenin, Mussolini had b…"

"[Mussolini’s] desire for revenge against the bourgeoisie was genuine enough; his intention was to inject the germs of…"

"Always an extremist, [Mussolini] inclined to the belief of Babeuf and Blanqui in violent insurrection by a minority i…"

"Mussolini had been envious of the Bolsheviks and for a while fancied himself as the Lenin of Italy."