From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 11:07:14 MDT
..and the ancient connotations were with `fasces',
rods bundled tightly together.
In november 1914 Mussolini founded the pro-war group *Fasci* d'Azione
Rivoluzionaria. He evidently hoped the war might lead to a collapse of
society that would bring him to power. Called up for military service, he
was wounded in grenade practice in 1917. Fascism became an organized
political movement in march 1919 when Mussolini founded the *Fasci* Italiani
di Combattimento, para-military groups, and later the Partito Nazionale
Fascista.
The most conspicuous symbol adopted by the Fascist Party, the "fascio
littorio",
"axe and bundle", was directly borrowed from roman history ... as you can
see
http://www.livius.org/fa-fn/fasces/fasces.html
http://www.legionxxiv.org/fasces%20page/
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