I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Axis of Evel Knievel, and came across this little nugget from La Dottrina del fascismo, a book, Axis tells us, that Il Duce Benito Mussolini wrote with Giovanni Gentile in 1932:
Fascism wants man to be active and to engage in action with all his energies; it wants him to be manfully aware of the difficulties besetting him and ready to face them. It conceives of life as a struggle in which it behooves a man to win for himself a really worthy place, first of all by fitting himself (physically, morally, intellectually) to become the implement required for winning it. As for the individual, so for the nation, and so for mankind. . . .Suddenly, everything that Chimpy and Big Dick do makes perfect sense.
4 comments:
Ah yes...they do look comfortable in those uniforms, don't they?
Our history books are all wrong, the facists won world war 2, they just didn't speak German or Italian or Japanese.
I love reading Axis of Evel Knievel too - his historical facts are fascinating. And, as we all know, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" or something like that.
Comparisons of Bush/Cheney and fascists are very apt.
Yes they do, ME.
Dr. Monkey--very astute observation.
Mauigirl--Very true. Sad but true.
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