An Italian political faction or organization, especially a local administrative unit or party organization in fascist Italy.
From Italian fascio, from Latin fasces (bundle). Italian fascism adopted this term to reference the bundled unity of the state, making it a politically charged word.
The word 'fascism' literally means 'bundle-ism'—the ideology was built on the metaphor of bundling people together into an indivisible unified force, which is darkly ironic given how ideology actually divides societies.
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