• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Man has been around for thousands of years athis current sociointelligent level. It is not hard to extrapolate the current fascist mentalities back through the ages all the way through our barbarous past.

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      3 months ago

      If it’s not hard can you do a basic breakdown for us? But for the record the first fascist country was Italy, and hey look at that it was a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_fascism

      Can you tell us more about the thousands of years of fascism that existed prior to Italy in the 1920’s?

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        3 months ago

        Italy was not first. There was the mongols, the greeks, the spartans and probably many more that only rated a blurb in the history books

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          You are conflating monarchy with fascism for some reason.

          The Mongols were governed by the Khan, who was an emperor.

          The Greeks had multiple kings of the various polises (aside from Athens for a while), until they were united under Alexander the Great, who was an emperor.

          The Spartans were Greek, so it’s weird you listed them separately.

          Fascism and monarchy are both authoritarian, but authoritarianism is not fascism.