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ascism is an oppressive political movement that first developed in Italy
after 1919, and then in various countries in Europe, as a reaction to the
F political and social changes brought about by World War I. The name
comes from the Latin word fasces, meaning a bundle of rods tied around an axe
which symbolized authority in ancient Rome.
The term "fascism" was first used in Italy by the 1922-1924
government led by Benito Mussolini. And the figure of a bundle
of sticks tied around an axe became the emblem of the first fascist
party. After Italy, fascist governments came to power in
Germany from 1933 to 1945, and in Spain from 1939 to 1975.
After World War II, dictatorial regimes set up in South America
and other undeveloped countries were generally described as
fascist.
To understand the philosophy of fascism, we may
consider the description that Mussolini wrote for the Italian
Encyclopedia in 1932:
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the
development of humanity quite apart from political
considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility
nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine
of Pacifism—born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of
cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its
highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility
upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are
substitutes, which never really put men into the position where
they have to make the great decision—the alternative of life or
death.... [The Fascist] conceives of life as duty and struggle and
A lictor from ancient
Rome. He walked in conquest, but above all for others—those who are at hand and
front of Roman those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will
magistrates and held a come after. 1
bundle of rods in his
hand as a symbol of Evidently, the main idea behind fascism, as stressed by
power and authority. Mussolini, is Darwinist conflict and war. For, as we saw in the