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Mussolini left socialism in 1917 because of its anti-militarism and spent next years working to destroy it in Italy. https://t.co/9bpi9g1nMW pic.twitter.com/A5GGQFDtrE— TalesFromTheCryptic (@Yastreblyansky) October 16, 2017
That's not correct; it was in 1914 that he was thrown out of the Partito Socialista Italiano, of which he was at 31 one of Italy's most prominent members, after starting a newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia, supporting Italian participation on the Allied side in the Great War, which the party regarded (with some justice) as a disgusting and immoral imperialist-capitalist adventure on both poxed sides, and called for strict neutrality. That was in November, and by December he was denouncing "orthodox" socialism and its focus on class struggle and egalitarianism in favor of a patriotism of language and culture and race:
