Several far-right political factions across Europe are facing significant backlash for their proposals advocating for the establishment of police forces that mi
It’s much older. Fascism comes from Fasces. The Roman civilisation thrived with it.
The fasces, as a bundle of rods with an axe, was a grouping of all the equipment needed to inflict corporal or capital punishment. In ancient Rome, the bundle was a material symbol of a Roman magistrate’s full civil and military power, known as imperium. They were carried in a procession with a magistrate by lictors, who carried the fasces and, at times, used the birch rods as punishment to enforce obedience with magisterial commands.
=> i.e later the Blackshirts, Brownshirts, mafia, ICE etc.
All Mussolini, Hitler (and in a similar fashion Stalin & Mao) plus many many others did was copy paste this concept. It’s in our DNA That’s why it’s so dangerous.
It’s much older. Fascism comes from Fasces. The Roman civilisation thrived with it.
The fasces, as a bundle of rods with an axe, was a grouping of all the equipment needed to inflict corporal or capital punishment. In ancient Rome, the bundle was a material symbol of a Roman magistrate’s full civil and military power, known as imperium. They were carried in a procession with a magistrate by lictors, who carried the fasces and, at times, used the birch rods as punishment to enforce obedience with magisterial commands.
=> i.e later the Blackshirts, Brownshirts, mafia, ICE etc.
All Mussolini, Hitler (and in a similar fashion Stalin & Mao) plus many many others did was copy paste this concept. It’s in our DNA That’s why it’s so dangerous.