Why are you unable the give a genuine definition from a college-level acceptable source? All you are able to provide are partisan subjective opinion ramblings. Scholars have defined fascism and actually defined 17 levels or degrees of fascism (some claim 23 levels or degrees). All follow the tenets of definitions provided in this thread and which are found in a Google search.
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Fasces (..., from the
Latin word
fascis, meaning "bundle"...) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces had its origin in the
Etruscan civilization and was passed on to
ancient Rome, where it symbolized a
magistrate's
power and
jurisdiction. The axe originally associated with the symbol, the
Labrys ... the double-
bitted axe, originally from
Crete, is one of the oldest symbols of Greek civilization. To the Romans, it was known as a
bipennis.
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The image has survived in the modern world as a representation of magisterial or collective power, law and governance. The fasces frequently occurs as a
charge in
heraldry: it is present on the reverse of the U.S.
Mercury dime coin and behind the podium in the
United States House of Representatives; and it was the origin of the name of the
National Fascist Party in Italy (from which the term
fascism is derived).
During the first half of the 20th century both the fasces and the
swastika (each symbol having its own unique ancient religious and mythological associations) became heavily identified with the
authoritarian/
fascist political movements of
Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini. During this period the swastika became deeply stigmatized, but the fasces did not undergo a similar process.
The fact that the fasces remained in use in many societies after
World War II may have been due to the fact that prior to Mussolini the fasces had already been adopted and incorporated within the governmental iconography of many governments outside Italy. As such, its use persists as an accepted form of governmental and other iconography in various contexts. (The
swastika remains in common usage in parts of Asia for religious purposes which are also unrelated to early 20th century European fascism.)
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Fasces - Wikipedia
Fascism has originally and always been an oligarchy of wealthy elite.
