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For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
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La Lotta di Classe (1910), while a socialist, paraphrasing French socialist Gustave Hervé, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro
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Variant translation: The national flag is a rag that should be placed in a dunghill.
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As quoted in Aspects of European History, 1789-1980 (1988) by Stephen J. Lee, p. 191

 

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