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The word fascism comes from '' | The word fascism comes from ''fasci,'' the Latin word for ''hold'', (as in fascinate, fasten) which in this case represents a society of people united around a common ideal. Its origins go back to the ancient Etruscans, long befote the existence of Rome, where it symbolized a unified Society. Later in Rome it became the symbol of a magistrate's (Judge's) office, and represented Justic3. The ''fasces'' is a bundle of reeds with a tool that teptesents the focus of society, a tool that can also be used as a weapon such as a pick or an axe. In Rome, carried by magistrate attendants called lictors. | ||
The idea of the fasces as some sort of "punishment kit" is jewish propaganda spread after the jews were ejected from Rome. The lictors carried with them an assortment of whips, scourges, and actual weapons like swords. The idea that the symbol of office fa was undone, used to brutalize people, or even kill them, is quite ridiculous. The [[parts of a fasces]] jad a deep spiritual meaning to the Ancient Romans, and probably the Etruscans before them. | |||
“The Fascist State is an inwardly accepted standard and rule of conduct, a discipline of the whole person; it permeates the will no less than the intellect. It stands for a principle which becomes the central motive of man as a member of civilized society, sinking deep down into his personality; it dwells in the heart of the man of action and of the thinker, of the artist and of the man of science: soul of the soul. | “The Fascist State is an inwardly accepted standard and rule of conduct, a discipline of the whole person; it permeates the will no less than the intellect. It stands for a principle which becomes the central motive of man as a member of civilized society, sinking deep down into his personality; it dwells in the heart of the man of action and of the thinker, of the artist and of the man of science: soul of the soul. | ||
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The word fascism comes from fasci, the Latin word for hold, (as in fascinate, fasten) which in this case represents a society of people united around a common ideal. Its origins go back to the ancient Etruscans, long befote the existence of Rome, where it symbolized a unified Society. Later in Rome it became the symbol of a magistrate's (Judge's) office, and represented Justic3. The fasces is a bundle of reeds with a tool that teptesents the focus of society, a tool that can also be used as a weapon such as a pick or an axe. In Rome, carried by magistrate attendants called lictors.
The idea of the fasces as some sort of "punishment kit" is jewish propaganda spread after the jews were ejected from Rome. The lictors carried with them an assortment of whips, scourges, and actual weapons like swords. The idea that the symbol of office fa was undone, used to brutalize people, or even kill them, is quite ridiculous. The parts of a fasces jad a deep spiritual meaning to the Ancient Romans, and probably the Etruscans before them.
“The Fascist State is an inwardly accepted standard and rule of conduct, a discipline of the whole person; it permeates the will no less than the intellect. It stands for a principle which becomes the central motive of man as a member of civilized society, sinking deep down into his personality; it dwells in the heart of the man of action and of the thinker, of the artist and of the man of science: soul of the soul.
Fascism, in short, is not only a law-giver and a founder of institutions, but an educator and a promoter of spiritual life. It aims at refashioning not only the forms of life but their content - man, his character, and his faith. To achieve this propose it enforces discipline and uses authority, entering into the soul and ruling with undisputed sway. Therefore it has chosen as its emblem the Lictor’s rods, the symbol of unity, strength, and justice. “
- Giovanni Gentile, The Doctrine of Fascism
Fasces (English: /ˈfæsiːz/ FASS-eez; Latin: [ˈfaskeːs]; a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning "bundle"; Italian: fascio littorio) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe (occasionally two axes) with its blade emerging. -Wikipedia
The principle represented by the Fasces is Strength through Unity, the right of the state to discipline.