I’ve never described myself as fascist, even when I was young, but in the 1970s and 1980s we on the right believed fascism was substantially positive. Now we realise it was totalitarian and generally negative, it has to be condemned. […] What’s historically positive is the process of modernisation – fascism was fundamental to modernising Italy. The regime reclaimed much marshland; it set up the country’s infrastructure.

― Gianni Alemanno, Sunday Times. E i treni arrivarono in orario. (via kekkoz)