More than seventy years after the end of World War II, it is still chilling to talk about fascism around the world. What exactly is fascism, and where did this vicious executioner come from? In fact, fascism once had a neutral or even slightly positive connotation, and it was only because of a person's "work" that it became synonymous with a certain fanaticism.
Roman consul and fascist
The term fascist first appeared in the Roman Republic, which ended the monarchical era.
Since the founding of Rome, it has embarked on the road of continuous external expansion, in other words, it has been fighting with the surrounding areas for many years. In order to effectively command the war, the Roman Republic produced the consul system, every year in the form of citizen elections, two consuls were introduced to oversee the military and political power of the country that year, and the term of office was limited to prevent the consuls from fully controlling the army, and the allocation of two people also ensured the mutual restraint of power.
Cicero, who served as consul
When the Roman consuls traveled, they were accompanied by 12 guards, each carrying a bundle of wooden sticks and a tomahawk inserted in the middle, and this "equipment" was called fascist. With the operation of the consul system, fascism gradually became a symbol of the authority of the consuls, but also a spirit of individual obedience to the collective and collective obedience to the leader.
Fascism was the original form
Up to this point, fascism remained a neutral concept, and even in the days when the Roman republic existed in name only and the consul became dictator, fascism did not produce such a terrible connotation as it is today, and it was Mussolini and his political clique that gave this completely different connotation.
Benito Mussolini and Fascism
Originally the name of the Mexican hero Benito Juarez, the blacksmith Alessandro Mussolini admired his actions and named his first child Benito. The little Benito did not live up to expectations, and later established a "feat" that shocked the world.
Mussolini is speaking
The young Misoni briefly worked as a teacher and subsequently became active in society as a journalist and editor. He cultivated his own power through the operation of newspapers and socialist parties, and later established the "Fighting Fascists", an armed insurrection group. Dissatisfied with the small number of seats in Parliament, he ordered the Black shirts to march into Rome and become prime minister, transforming Italy into the first fascist state. His deeds inspired an Austrian art student who was determined to practice fascism in Germany as well.
Austria lost the list of art students in the fierce battle with the loving father
We do not know why Mussolini used fascism to refer to the party he had built. The only thing we know is that since then the fascist part of speech has undergone a fundamental change, becoming synonymous with a political group and political tendency, and the most harmful of them.
Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall. Let fascism forever retain its meaning and influence today, and continue to function as a dangerous warning sign, warning the latecomers of what a flood of totalitarianism and ultra-nationalism that are out of control, and not to become an object of entertainment like today's pirate skull flag in a few years, otherwise the same tragedy may befall humanity.
Entertain the pirate icon without warning meaning