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Fascism and The Via Dei Fori Imperiali |
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by joelnish / 09.18.2005 |
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Personal Observations |
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While this paper has discussed the effect that Fascism had in shaping the message of the ruins the effect that the ruins had on the development of Fascism shouldn’t be trivialized. It must be more than simple coincidence that the first place that saw a fascist government was Rome. In fact, it is a common motif of Rome that people keep trying to restore to Rome the importance and power that it once had. It is an interesting play that exists between how history affects politics and in turn how politics shapes the way that history is viewed.
Another thing that was relatively surprising was the degree to which I was misinformed on Fascism. At the beginning of the project I simply assumed that Fascism was essentially Nazism’s small Italian offspring. This however turned out not to be true. In fact, most surprisingly Mussolini had a severe dislike for Hitler until the mid to late thirties.
Perhaps the most interesting thing though was simply the parallel that kept cropping up between the way that a political base was maintained in both Ancient Rome and Fascist Italy.
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