You're the Tops

Editing the book, I found some comment I'd made on Mussolini.  Trying to work out what I was getting at, I'm trying to look it up and found a few quotes I want to keep in mind.

“There are only two fatherlands in the world:  that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.”
- La Lotta di Classe (1910), while a socialist, paraphrasing French socialist Gustave Hervé

This one strikes me as very leftist, belief that human existence can be so limited.

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
- Speech to Chamber of Deputies (December 9, 1928)

This obviously follows in the same path, there can be nothing else except this simplistic statement, the person making the statement says so and will send men with guns to punish anyone who disagrees.

“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)

Still more, obviously individuality is what God created and they oppose it.  I also suspect that this is really where the distinction really comes from, recognizing that a state has to keep existing.  I assume they expect to be the one in charge, "national socialism" and it does make a fundamental disagreement with other leftists, unless they can get something out of it.

“I don't like the look of him.”
-To his aide after Mussolini's first encounter with Hitler (1934)

Leftists don't like other leftists.  IIRC, Hitler was originally a Mussolini fanboy but obviously Germany was in a different situation from Italy and they had to go their own ways, except when it came to staying in control.  It's also worth noting that in many ways, women don't like other women.  Jus' saying...

“I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people.  When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.”
- As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power (2006)

I'll have to look that up to see if it's a real quote.  It's totally believable but did it really happen?