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Dictatorships, Left and Right, "claimed to be better democracies. As anti-liberal democracies, they offered mass mobilization and participation through approved political parties, buttressed by strong images of popular support and national unity." 53
"The Fascist State", Giovanni Gentile wrote, "is a peoples state, and as such, the democratic state par excellence." 53
Stalin: "We understand democracy as the raising of the activeness and consciousness of the party mass, as the systemic involving of the party mass not only in the discussion of questions but also in the leadership to work." 53
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