What Fascism Really Is

Fascism is an Italian term that means “groupism” or “collectivism.”  The fasci in Italy were groups of political activists who got their name from the fasces of ancient Rome—the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the unified strength of the Romans. The core meaning of the term fascism is that people are stronger in groups than they are as individuals.

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Here is a direct quotation from [Anthony] Gregor’s The Ideology of Fascism: “The movement itself was not conservative. It was revolutionary. Its clear intention was to destroy all the social, economic and political artifacts of classical liberalism.”  And here is a quote from [Stanley] Payne: “The nucleus that eventually founded fascism in Italy did not stem from the right-wing nationalists but from the transformation of part of the revolutionary left.”

Dinesh D’Souza, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, pg.37, 38