# Quote — Richard Pipes, Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

> Given the opportunity, Mussolini would have been glad as late as 1920-21 to take under his wing the Italian Communists, for whom he felt great affinities: greater, certainly, than for democratic socialists, liberals and conservatives. Genetically, Fascism issued from the 'Bolshevik' wing of Italian socialism, not from any conservative ideology or movement.

- Author: [Richard Pipes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes.md)
- Book: [Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/russia-under-the-bolshevik-regime.md)
- Page: 253
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/russia-under-the-bolshevik-regime/given-the-opportunity

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> Marxism and Bolshevism, its offspring, were products of an era in European intellectual life that was obsessed with violence. No-one embraced this philosophy more enthusiastically than the Bolsheviks: ‘merciless’ violence, violence that strove for the destruction of every actual and potential opponent, was… the only way of dealing with problems.

p. 500 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/russia-under-the-bolshevik-regime/marxism-and-bolshevism.md)

> Bolshevism and Fascism were heresies of socialism.

p. 253 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/russia-under-the-bolshevik-regime/bolshevism-and-fascism.md)

> The French Jacobins were the first to realize the political potential of class resentment. Exploiting it, they conjured constant conspiracies by aristocrats and other enemies of the revolution: shortly before their fall they drafted legislation expropriating private wealth and had the unmistakable communistic implications. It was from the study of the French Revolution that its aftermath that Marx formulated the theory of class struggle as the dominant feature of history. In his theory, social antagonism was for the first time accorded moral legitimacy: hate, which Judaism condemned as self-destructive, and Christianity (in the guise of anger) treated as one of the cardinal sins, was made into a virtue.

p. 262 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/russia-under-the-bolshevik-regime/the-french-jacobins.md)