Benito Mussolini admitted that his ideas came from the left

Benito Mussolini admitted that his ideas came from the left

On April 22, 1945, Benito Mussolini spoke in Milan: "Our programs are decidedly revolutionary, our ideas belong to what in a democratic regime would be called the left, our institutions are a direct consequence of our programs, our ideal is the state of There can be no doubt about it: we are the proletarians fighting, for life or death, against capitalism. We are the revolutionaries in search of a new order. waving the red danger is absurd. The real bogeyman, the real danger, the threat against which we fight tirelessly, comes from the right, therefore, we are not interested in having the capitalist bourgeoisie as an ally against the threat of the red danger: even in the best case, it would only be a treacherous ally, who would try to make us serve its purposes, as it has done more than once with some success. To waste words on this is perfectly superfluous. In fact, it is harmful. makes authentic revolutionaries of any color confuse us with the men of reaction whose language we sometimes use." REFERENCE: Benito Mussolini, Il manuale delle guardie nere, Editrice Reprint, 1993.