“Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.”
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“Socialism urged to find dictator,” Berkeley Daily Gazette (Nov. 30, 1927)
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