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The word fascism comes from ''fascio,'' the Italian word for ''bundle'', which in this case represents bundles of people united around a common ideal. Its origins go back to Ancient Rome, where it symbolized a magistrate's power and jurisdiction. The ''fasces'' was a bundle of wood with an ax head, carried by magistrate attendants called lictors. ย 
[[File:Etrusgasced.png|right|thumb|250px|The oldest known fasces was Etruscan, pre-Rome, and featured twin ards (plough blades)]]
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]]. In Latin the word "fasciculus" means "bundle".ย  Its origins go back to the ancient Etruscans, long before the existence of [[Rome]], where it symbolized a unified Society. Later in Rome it became the [[symbol]] of a magistrate's (Judge's)ย  office, and represented [[Justice]]. The ''fasces'' is a bundle of reeds with a tool that represents the focus of society, a tool that can also be used as a weapon such as a [[labrys]]<ref>Labrys symbol, its [[meaning]], [[history]], and origins - https://mythologian.net/labrys-symbol-meaning-history-and-origins</ref>, pick or an axe. In Rome, carried by magistrate attendants called lictors. ย 


=Anti-Roman propaganda=
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The [[idea]] of the fasces as some sort of "punishment kit" is [[jews|jewish]] [[propaganda]] spread after the [[jews]] were ejected from Rome. <ref>Bloom, J.J. 2010 The [[jewish]] Revolts Against Rome, A.D. 66โ€“135: A Military Analysis. McFarland.</ref> Similarly, it is highly unlikely that the lictors disassembled their standard of office, to use the reeds, sometimes decorated in gold, to flog criminals. <ref>[[Greek]] and [[Roman]] texts and facing English translation: Harvard University Press, 1914 thru 1927.Online in LacusCurtius and Livius.org. Book scan in [[Internet Archive]].</ref> The lictors carried with them an assortment of whips, scourges, and actual weapons like swords. The idea that the symbol of office was undone, used to brutalize people, or even kill them, is quite ridiculous. The [[parts of a fasces]] had a deep [[spiritual]] meaning to the [[Ancient Rome|Ancient Romans]], and probably the Etruscans before them.


Lictors carried the fasces for their magistrate and were constantly in his attendance in public; clearing his way in crowds and summoned and punished offenders for him. They also served as their magistrateโ€™s house guard. The fasces in this sense was also utilized as a portable kit for corporal or capital punishment. Lictors had the duty to arrest and punish people, and acted as guards for the magistrates; so one may roll out the fasces to use the rods to cane criminals, or if necessary, the ax.


{{Quote|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 Lictorโ€™s rods, the symbol of unity, strength, and justice. โ€œ|Giovanni Gentile|The Doctrine of Fascism}}


โ€œThe 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 Lictorโ€™s rods, the symbol of unity, strength, and justice. โ€œ
Fasces (English: /หˆfรฆsiหz/ FASS-eez; Latin: [หˆfaskeหs]; a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fasci. The [[principle]] represented by the Fasces is Strength through Unity.


- Giovanni Gentile, The Doctrine of Fascism
[[Category:History]]


=See also=
* [[Parts of a fasces]]
* [[Fascism]]


Fasces (English: /หˆfรฆsiหz/ FASS-eez; Latin: [หˆfaskeหs]; 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
[[Category:History]]


=References=
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The principle represented by the Fasces is Strength through Unity, the right of the state to discipline.
[[Category:History]]

Latest revision as of 17:12, 18 April 2024

The oldest known fasces was Etruscan, pre-Rome, and featured twin ards (plough blades)

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. In Latin the word "fasciculus" means "bundle". Its origins go back to the ancient Etruscans, long before 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 Justice. The fasces is a bundle of reeds with a tool that represents the focus of society, a tool that can also be used as a weapon such as a labrys[1], pick or an axe. In Rome, carried by magistrate attendants called lictors.

Anti-Roman propaganda

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The idea of the fasces as some sort of "punishment kit" is jewish propaganda spread after the jews were ejected from Rome. [2] Similarly, it is highly unlikely that the lictors disassembled their standard of office, to use the reeds, sometimes decorated in gold, to flog criminals. [3] The lictors carried with them an assortment of whips, scourges, and actual weapons like swords. The idea that the symbol of office was undone, used to brutalize people, or even kill them, is quite ridiculous. The parts of a fasces had a deep spiritual meaning to the Ancient Romans, and probably the Etruscans before them.


Quotebubble.png 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 Lictorโ€™s rods, the symbol of unity, strength, and justice. โ€œ
โ€”Giovanni Gentile, The Doctrine of Fascism


Fasces (English: /หˆfรฆsiหz/ FASS-eez; Latin: [หˆfaskeหs]; a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fasci. The principle represented by the Fasces is Strength through Unity.

See also

References

  1. โ†‘ Labrys symbol, its meaning, history, and origins - https://mythologian.net/labrys-symbol-meaning-history-and-origins
  2. โ†‘ Bloom, J.J. 2010 The jewish Revolts Against Rome, A.D. 66โ€“135: A Military Analysis. McFarland.
  3. โ†‘ Greek and Roman texts and facing English translation: Harvard University Press, 1914 thru 1927.Online in LacusCurtius and Livius.org. Book scan in Internet Archive.
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