2022 America was fatally slow to respond to the full threat of fascism the last time around.īill Mckibben, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. Roosevelt’s presidency and hasten the rise of fascism across and beyond Europe. 2022 Amid these and other complications, our heroes will expose the roots of a sinister conspiracy, hatched by industrialists eager to overthrow Franklin D. 2022 Although the omniscient narrator reserves judgment, after exposing the forces that determine the girl’s fate, the book’s condemnation of fascism is devastatingly clear.īethanne Patrick, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. Recent Examples on the Web The adjective has been paired with everything from egotism to irony to fascism.Īdam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. It is, however, to the Fascisti in their 1919 incarnation-who seized power in Italy three years later-that we owe the current customary meanings of our words fascism and fascist.
Although Mussolini was closely associated with this interventionist movement, it had no direct link with the post-war Fasci di combattimento, and in 1919 the word fascista was already in political circulation. Members of this group were first called fascisti in January 1915. In Italian, the word fascio (plural fasci) means literally “bundle,” and figuratively “group.” From at least 1872 fascio was used in the names of labor and agrarian unions, and in October 1914 a political coalition was formed called the Fascio rivoluzionario d’ azione internazionalista (“revolutionary group for international action”), which advocated Italian participation in World War I on the side of the Allies.
However, Mussolini did not introduce the word fascista (plural fascisti) with the 1919 organization of the Fasci di combattimento (“combat groups”), nor did the fasces have any direct connection with the origin of fascista. The words fascism and fascist have long been associated with the Fascisti of Benito Mussolini and the fasces, the bundle of rods with an ax among them, which the Fascisti used as a symbol of the Italian people united and obedient to the single authority of the state.
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