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Mussolini

Engels, Marx, Bernstein, Lenin. Didn’t know Marx was such a loser. He never worked a job, lived off subsidies from Engels (and got credit for a good amount of his work), and despised actual working class people (not to mention Jews and Slavs). Also, it’s an irony that the growth of Marxism disproves Marx’s own theory that communism must take hold in an industrializing nation like Germany. Russia was agrarian.

Finished the chapter on Robert Owen and New Harmony. 19th century America just keeps getting weirder and weirder the more I learn about it.