HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Fasces, Fascio, Italian Nationalism
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Patriot, nationist, and belief in italian destiny . Contempt for the italian was a patrioic act. These people needed discipline to achieve the desine. There was racism (white beter than black) 19th century theory everywhere, but there was no sense of race hierarchy. Idea of violence and extreme naionalism through violence played into the events of the irst world war. Civil order began to break down (was once part of the triple alliance it should have supported austria, Hungary in 1913, but didn"t because the let was on the side of the germans, and the right on the side of the totalitarian. Saw as the moive a series of local social and economic circumstances. Journalists and others began to deine it as a naional movement. Naionalists protected those who were speaking out against the socialists and republicans. Discipline and tacics of the right, inimated the let. They wanted to stop the right to make sure italy didn"t enter the war.
