The Concept of Fascism: A Review of Italian Ideology

Abstract

Today most of the scholars agree with the fact that Europe's first fundamentalist pioneer, Benito Mussolini, took the name of his gathering from the Latin word ‘fasces’, which alluded to a heap of elm or birch bars (more often than not containing a hatchet) utilized as an image of correctional specialist in antiquated Rome. Albeit fundamentalist gatherings and developments contrasted altogether from each other, they shared numerous attributes for all intents and purpose, including extraordinary battle ready. Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft, in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation. The present research paper highlights key aspects of fascism in the contemporary political scenario of this concept during World War 1^ST and 2^nd.