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A dictatorial system that fuses state and corporate power, crushes dissent, and glorifies violence under one leader.

means A system of dictatorial, ultranationalist government that fuses state and corporate power, crushes opposition, and glorifies violent unity under a single leader.

from From Italian fascismo, built on fascio, meaning 'bundle' or 'group' — itself a nod to the Latin fasces, the bundle of rods (sometimes bound around an axe) carried by officials in ancient Rome as a symbol of authority and the power to punish. The image was literal: individual sticks snap easily, bound together they don't. Mussolini's movement seized that symbol in the early 20th century to brand its politics of forced unity and state violence, and the name stuck to the ideology ever since.

origin word
from fasces, a bundle of rods symbolizing bound unity
coined by
mussolini, italy, 1919
core trick
blames national decline on an internal enemy
economic style
private ownership, state control of purpose
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