- 04 Jan 2014 18:35
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Many fascists are motivated by love for tradition, for archaic and noble cultural values which they want to preserve; a sentiment which I fully respect. However, I fear that fascism's biggest problem is that it contradicts its very purpose when put in political practice. For example, mussolinian fascism basically was more of a threat to traditional italian culture than anything. The aggressive nationalism tended to suppress the various particular realities of Italy, it pushed towards establishing the official italian language at the local dialect's cost and so on. As Pasolini said, fascism tried to assimilate italian society but (fortunately) failed to do so. In my opinion, fascism would work a lot better if it got rid of its virulent nationalism and took an evolaic turn instead.