Fascism and Militarism Before WWII Spinrad/World History

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Benito Mussolini Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war. - Popolo d'Italia (1 February 1921), quoted in The Menace of Fascism (1933) by John Strachey, p. 65

Benito Mussolini Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day. –to Edwin L James of the New York Times (1928)

Benito Mussolini Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State. - "The Doctrine of Fascism" (1932), quoted in The New York Times (11 January 1935)

Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler 1937

Adolf Hitler We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions. - Speech of May 1, 1927 as quoted in John Toland (1976), Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography, p. 306

Adolf Hitler In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe! - speech to the Reichstag, 30 January 1939, as quoted at The History Place

Hideki Tojo

Francisco Franco We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies. - Statement in El defensor de Córdoba (24 July 1936), as cited by Javier Navarrete in Mas Alla

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