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The growth of Fascism in pre-1930s Italy. Or perhaps Spain. Mussolini or Franco.
by jackweirdy 10y ago
The growth of Fascism in pre-1930s Italy. Or perhaps Spain. Mussolini or Franco.
- tigershark 10y agoMussolini created fascism in 1919, Hitler was inspired by him and after became much more dangerous. Francisco Franco took power much later. "Fascism" etimology is from "Fasci di combattimento" the political party founded by Mussolini.
- jackweirdy 10y agoThank you for comparing Mussolini and Hitler and proving my point :)
- jobigoud 10y agoThe fact that it came before doesn't preclude it from being compared…
- maxerickson 10y agoI've seen it said that Mussolini was somewhat inspired by the US mobilization for WWI. Don't have the historical perspective to evaluate that though.
- hartpuff 10y ago> "Fascism" etimology is from "Fasci di combattimento" the political party founded by Mussolini. No it's not. It derives from the word "fasces".
- alberto_ol 10y agothe word 'fasces' does not exist in Italian. From the Italian Treccani dictionary fascismo s. m. [der. di fascio]. – Movimento politico italiano che trasse origine e nome dai Fasci di combattimento fondati nel 1919 da B. Mussolini
- hartpuff 10y ago> the word 'fasces' does not exist in Italian. The word "fascism" does not exist in Italian either. We're using English and anglicised words. The "Fasces" is a group of rods tied together with an axe, dating back to ancient Italian/Roman times, and comes from the Latin fascis ("bundle"). The word fascism no more derives from a political party (which simply pulled the word out of nowhere, did it?) than the words "democrat", "republican" or "communist" do.