Fascism: The fraternity of violence
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The Psychology of Crowds by Gustav Le Bon
Mussolini specifically said, Sorel has been my master. So you've got these ideas of violence, communication of the group psychology. Well, they're grabbing from all over. I mean, that whole issue of Nietzsche's relationship to fascism is very contested. But they were certainly taking bits from him, even if they were taking it in ways that he did not intend. And they liked to be thought of as followers of it, even if he may not have agreed. The way that I look at it, it was almost like a sort of pile of munitions that was being built without anybody noticing. What it took to set them off was the First World War, which made fascism
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