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The name "fascism" derives from an ancient Roman symbol, the ''[[fasces]],'' a group of birch rods bundled together with an axe. It symbolizes strength in unity; the rods are weak by themselves but strong when bundled together.

The name "fascism" derives from an ancient Roman symbol, the ''[[fasces]],'' a group of birch rods bundled together with an axe. It symbolizes strength in unity; the rods are weak by themselves but strong when bundled together.

Fascists were not conservative in any very meaningful sense. They did not wish to preserve the existing order, or even to turn back the clock to some more stable century. They purposefully planned to transform the existing order into a new and all-absorbing [[authoritarianism]], based upon the energies and frustrations of modern industrialism. The Fascists, in a meaningful sense, were revolutionaries. <ref>[http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schlesinger-notrightleft.html Not Right, Not Left, But a Vital Center], Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ''New York Times Magazine'', April 4, 1948.</ref>

Fascists were not as different from conservatives as many argue. They did not wish to preserve the existing order, or to literally turn back the clock to some more stable century; yet they wanted to establish a 3rd Reich (reich as a name for german empire, used twice before in times of prosperity and glory), that would unite the people with the banner of nationalism, using the structure of morals of the aryan family as cell for that body. They acted on times of crisis, in which there was no existing order, therefore they had to turn the chaos and anarchy into a new and all-absorbing [[authoritarianism]], based upon the energies and frustrations of a versailles pact offended german nationalism. The Fascists, in a meaningful sense, were counter-revolutionaries, for that the main factor of conscription was fighting communists and criminals. <ref>[http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schlesinger-notrightleft.html Not Right, Not Left, But a Vital Center], Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ''New York Times Magazine'', April 4, 1948.</ref>

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