Cassius
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« on: April 18, 2016, 05:22:07 PM » |
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Well, a lot of fascist movements, in particular of course the Italian fascists adopted a lot of Roman iconography (or, perhaps more accurately, what they perceived to be Roman iconography), and Mussolini liked to drape his imperial project in terms of restoring Italy to its 'glorious Roman past'. However, you've got to remember that the Roman empire in the West evaporated 1500 years prior to the emergence of modern day fascism, and appeared in a very different era of human history, before the issues and concepts that made fascism (to the extent it was ever a coherent ideology and system of government) relevant came into being. So not really.
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