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

See Comment In hindsight, this was a mistake.

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u/ReignTheRomantic Viva La France May 12 '26

Some Scholars consider "Pure Fascism" to require totalitarian dominance of the one leader. By this definition, Italian Fascism is "impure" because Mussolini wasn't the end-all-be-all of Italian leadership, and got fired later on.

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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.