The fasces pledged national unity above all; each of the sticks represented a sector of society, organically bound into the corporate system. No clas… - R. J. B. Bosworth

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The fasces pledged national unity above all; each of the sticks represented a sector of society, organically bound into the corporate system. No class, gender, regional or other form of division could weaken a Fascist state, locked together as it was, a proletarian nation, needing to end subjugation by the plutocratic, established, great powers, in a Darwinian struggle of the national fittest; one Italian people, one Fascist state, one Duce at the head.

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About R. J. B. Bosworth

R. J. B. Bosworth FAHA, FASSA (born 1943) is an Australian historian and author, and a leading expert on Fascist Italy.

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Alternative Names: Richard James Boon Bosworth Richard Bosworth

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