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Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by barrow-rider on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:06PM (#18259604)
For the uninitiated: Italian Fascism was so named as a reference to classical Roman Fasces, which was a bundle of sticks or rods wrapped around an axe that symbolized authority.
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Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by jlawson on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:02PM (#18261492)
It symbolized solidarity, not so much authority. The small sticks work together and act as one.
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Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by int_19h on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:43PM (#18261652)
Fasces very much symbolized authority initially. It is no coincidence that the rods in fasces were birch. And, of course, there's that ax in the middle...
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