The Anatomy of Fascism (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert O. Paxton
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Current affairs and history
- Setting: Europe
- Principal Characters: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: Dictators, Politics, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Twenty-first century, World War II, Political science, Conservatism, Politicians, World War I, Nazism or Nazis, Democracy, Fascism, Force
- Locales: Europe
On Sunday morning, March 23, 1919, Benito Mussolini addressed his political followers in the Italian city of Milan. He referred to his movement as the Fasci di Combattimento (fraternities of combat). “If something begins when it acquires a name,” Robert Paxton argues, fascism began on that date. Paxton notes that both the term “fascism” and the politics connoted by it have much older roots. As implied by the Italian fascio, meaning a bundle or sheaf, or by the earlier Latin fasces, which denoted the rod-encased axe carried in public processions to symbolize...
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