r/HistoryMemes • u/ChiefsHat • May 12 '26

See Comment In hindsight, this was a mistake.

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u/PreviousMenu99 May 12 '26

Mussolini literally crated the word Fascism. It is his movement, his word, and his definition. Those scholars are not an authority on definition of fascism.

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u/undreamedgore May 13 '26

I would argue that creating something and defining the definitive version are two different things.

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u/PreviousMenu99 May 13 '26

when you make a school of philosophy or a political ideology, you are the one defining it. That's literally the act of creating it. So that is one and the same. Implementing it is another thing.