Fascism in Italy

Running head: PHILOSOPHY
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1PHILOSOPHY
Fascism has its origins in Italy; during the First World War Mussolini founded the
“National Fascists Party”. The word has been derived from "fasces" or "fascio littorio" which
indicates a bunch of rods or sticks tied together with an axe, it is an ancient Roman symbol for
the authority of Magistrate.
Fascism strives in the societies where there is military rule, where the authoritarian
leadership holds the power of the nation; it exercises its power over the trade commerce,
military, over the laws and regulations of a countryi. Fascism also does not support democracy,
under this rule the people of that nation has a very little freedom of speech, rights, equality and
liberty. This kind of a rule supports a single party headed by a single figure possibly a dictator. A
fascist country tends to keep away from the world and having an order of their own.
Fascism can come back in the present time; there are a number of political parties in
Europe who follow anti Semitic, racist, and anti immigrant policies, these parties in power also
isolate their countries from the world and maintain a closed economy ii. Some of these political
parties are, National Front in France, Freedom party in Austria, Golden Dawn in Greece. The
rise of these parties might have been a response to the rise in Islamic terrorism, which is spread
worldwide and also due to the growing economic issues in the Europe.
As for the United States of America (USA), there have been promises made to return
America to its former glory, and people are afraid that the country is moving towards an
authoritarian rule iii. The people are getting ready to face a situation where their freedom would
be revoked and their economic conditions would deteriorate. Although there is very less chance
that USA will become a fascist state as the country has several forms of checks and regulations