• too_high_for_this@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Sure, but it has a completely different historical context before Mussolini created the Italian fascist party. It was even used by left wing groups as a symbol of solidarity.

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      The fasces, as a bundle of rods with an axe, was a grouping of all the equipment needed to inflict corporal or capital punishment. In ancient Rome, the bundle was a material symbol of a Roman magistrate’s full civil and military power, known as imperium. They were carried in a procession with a magistrate by lictors, who carried the fasces and, at times, used the birch rods as punishment to enforce obedience with magisterial commands

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces

      totally normal, youre so right

      ps fasces and fa#got share the same root word