Note 71 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal

It is current knowledge that Italian Fascism and Russian Bolshevism both derive from the author of Reflections on Violence. He did, indeed, preach class egotism to some extent in a universal manner, but without any explicit preference for the interest of one class rather than that of another. In his preaching of egotism there is a kind of impartiality which does not lack grandeur, a quality not inherited by his disciples.