If you’re reading this article, chances are slim that you’re an advocate of fascism. That’s because fascists aren’t known for reading 1819 News, and, most of all, because the term fascist probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. Like the contemporary misuse of democracy , fascism lost its original meaning years ago when it ceased to be a “movement of the Italian spirit, deeply bound up with the history of the Italian nation....”

Fascism is simply an early 20th-century Italian political ideology formulated by Sicilian philosopher Giovanni Gentile. Chances are, you’ve never heard of him. Instead, when you hear the term fascism, you might think of Benito Mussolini, the leader of the Italian National Fascist Party (1919-1945). But while Mussolini made fascism famous after he was expell

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