No, they would have loved it because at the time people in England were hunting in forests. Working class food vendors aren't problematic in the context of the fascist worldview.

That having been said, the study of classics being unfashionable due to fascism isn't at all true.

In the fascist world view a womans place is in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. A fast food vendor 2000 years ago means that the supposed golden age of the volk never was.

The rootless proletariat of Rome is oddly enough something that communists latch on to: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37811.The_Assassination_...

You should probably read what an ideology actually believes before making sweeping pronouncements for them. This is how we end up with American rednecks being called nazis and american college students communists when the first are slightly right of center market liberals and the second are slightly left of center market liberals.

Delusions about the ancient pastoral lifestyle weren't really a major feature of Italian fascism, which was deeply rooted in the Futurist movement.

You shouldn't assume that you're talking to Americans.

American or not, I suggest you check the bunch of propaganda videos showing Mussolini himself harvesting crops and his calls to the rural, natural lifestyle of the forefathers (his milk only breakfast being a good example accessible to non Italian speakers)

Judging from your comment I can assume you're not American, therefore you might be familiar with Coletti's study on the rural roots of fascism.

Have an excerpt that you might find interesting: ''' One can not say based on these figures that Fascism has become strictly rural; one can only say that a good half of the Fascist militias come from the rural areas. Not only are we not ashamed of this, but we would like to proclaim — as a badge of honour — that Fascism in the Po Valley is today largely "rural". '''

Lastly, one of the "good things that Mussolini did" (as his supporters love to repeat) is precisely the creation of agricultural land after the 1929 crisis. The n.3134 law on land quenching (legge sulla bonifica integrale) turned ONE THIRD of the land into agricultural soil (more here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Land).

You shouldn't assume other people suffer from delusions. Best regards.

This is true but I'd argue that it was mostly tactical (given the amount of farmers in Italy at the time it would have been unwise to spurn them); I'm Italian and I'm familiar, yes. The publicity images of Mussolini harvesting crops were made in the context of the effort ("battaglia del grano", edit: I see that you mentioned this) to reach autarky of the food supply.

Regarding delusions, I was referring to the "volkish" beliefs in German fascism.

>So, what, the swastika iconography and neo-Nazi decor/flags not enough for you?

No.

Behold a Nazi:

https://old.reddit.com/r/goth/comments/ire2cs/what_is_up_wit...

The sinequanon of American consumer culture is style over substance.

Want to be a Nazi? Buy this flag.

Want to be a Communist? Buy this beret.

Never mind seeing what the ideology actually stood for. That would require an uncomfortable, and possibly dangerous, amount of thinking.

>And there are plenty of college students who genuinely believe in communism.

No there aren't. There are plenty of college students who like social democracy, there are very few who want to empower the working class American - fat, white and 40.

> That would require an uncomfortable, and possibly dangerous, amount of thinking.

About, what? Slaughtering everyone not part of the master race? Yeah, tons of thought there, all of it stuck in the stone age.

You are viewing "American consumerism" through a very narrow lens, and an incorrect one at that. The people that buy nazi stuff here generally drink the koolaid. I don't know what you're reading but naziism is still taboo here.

I find the people who think there is such a thing as an American Nazi movement are the ones whose idea of what a Nazi is comes from Marvel comics' Hydra.

A simple question: have you actually read Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto?

You don't think it's a bit more than bad cosplay when you have people marching to chants of 'Jews will not replace us'?

I think that there are way more than 500 Nazis in the US.

I also think that they have as much power as witches did in Salem, for largely the same reasons.

That said don't expect the moral panic to calm down any time soon. It's odd seeing the side of politics I identified with until recently become a larger danger to democracy than the side I was sure would implement a theocracy.

You can be a fascist without being a Nazi.

Fascism is an authoritarian nationalist death cult which glorifies in violence and war, believes in strict competitive social hierarchies where some people are born inherently and disposably inferior to others, and is deeply threatened by non-conformity.

Fascism is also pro-corporate and anti-localist. And it's fundamentally Romantic and emotional, and deliberately anti-rational.

Nazis were a subset of fascism. The US and Russia both show many signs of same in embryo but without the goose stepping and the silly helmets.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21521958/what-is-fas...

Russia does tons of goose-stepping. Something Trump also attempted to introduce for 4th July celebrations in America.

A few points.

1. There's a clear continuity of goose-stepping in Russia from a time that long predates Putin.

2. We have goose-stepping in the United States, too, that long predates Trump, and will almost certainly outlast him. It doesn't look like weird one-handed salutes, it looks like a daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

1. Yes, an influence from 19th century Prussia, notorious proto-fascist state.

2. You can argue for a lot of things metaphorically and perhaps even have a case, but that's not goose-stepping.