"I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended.Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to shoulder the burdens of peace. ... It is not simply and solely an accumulation of wealth, it is an elaboration, a selection, a co-ordination of values which is the work of centuries. ... Many think, and I myself am one of them, that capitalism is scarcely at the beginning of its story."
Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician and dictator who founded Italian Fascism. He ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 and aligned the country with Nazi Germany in World War II. He was captured and executed by Italian partisans in 1945.