On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Chris Doss
<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> writes:
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> --- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
> Mussolini on
> > the other hand was a
> > fairly significant socialist intellectual in Italy
> > before his betrayal.
> > He even influenced the young Gramsci.
> >
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> I did not know that.
Mussolini, like Gramsci, was a militant in the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) up through the First World War, Mussolini even edited the Party's newspaper. Also, both Mussolini and Gramsci were influenced by some of the same intellectual currents. Both men shared an admiration for the French political theorist, George Sorel, for instance.
I got into some of this, some time back on Marxmail. See: http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2005w42/msg00022.htm http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2005w42/msg00036.htm
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> In his memoirs he comes across to me as boorish and
> swaggeringly macho. But maybe that is a result of the
> circumstances (he wrote them in Salo).
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