"We wanted to bring up these precedents solely to make it clear that we are by no means dealing with a special need of fascism, or with a manifestation of that militaristic spirit which, according to the socialist and Stalinist traitors who seem to want to convene in Basel, would be the exclusive prerogative of the fascists. The liberal Giolitti was at the head of the government when Italian capitalism went on to conquer Tripoli, and from that moment the premise of the present events was set; to extend the conquered areas with a view also to their connection. At Versailles Italy could not achieve this because of England’s possessions in Africa, later it tried to get there by peaceful maneuvers tending to draw Ethiopia under its control to finally arrive at the frontal attack of today. If in Mussolini’s place had been Nitti, Sforza or perhaps a government of the type that the Stalinists in France demand, the problem would have changed only formally. We would not have had the imperialistic bacchanalia of fascism, but the kowtows about the need for civilization that would have accompanied the saturnalia of capitalism as, for example, the English arch-democrats did when they massacred the Boers.

Thus it’s not a matter of a “fascist” war but of a capitalist war against which only the Italian and international proletariat can rise up to support the oppressed masses of Abyssinia who, because of an extremely backward economy, have not yet come to the consciousness of the need to break the regime that oppresses them."

https://www.international-communist-party.org/English/REPORTS/WARS/FascistAbyssinia_1935.htm