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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4551711
The USA senate has 2 fasces. You cannot get more obvious than that
the founders were romaboos
funny how romaboo thought always leads to fascism
What do you mean, idolizing a violent expansionist slavery empire leads to trying the same stuff as them???
I imagine that’s how the planters themselves thought of it but, they thought it was a virtue. They envisioned themselves as new repubican aristocrats in the Roman model. They would live in leisurely repose while being able to pursue art, academic writing, and politics just as the Roman latifundia did in the past.
I think it could be related to the liberal revolutionaries’ tendency to clothe themselves in the Republican garb of the Classical age in order to legitimize their movement. The French had a similar movement in art and architecture during the age of their revolution and into the Napoleonic era as well.
The Roman Empire was an ideal society to model ourselves after
what about all the slavery and depravity tho?
That is a feature, not a bug
also, roman republic tearing itself apart repeatedly because the elites simply refused to give any concessions to the poor.
no, no lesson here.
(not that the republic was good…)
Like a dozen times in Roman history, some Consul is hailed as the greatest leader of all time because he breaks up the big slave owning plantations and redistributes the land to the poor (that is, the poor citizenry, not the slaves or immigrants). None of them could figure out how to stop the big plantations from inevitably buying up and outcompeting the smallholders, though.
Oh yay, I love depravity
This is kind of dumb tbh
They were there before Fascism existed
okay but they stayed there even after fascism adopted the imagery. the empire is at the very least unconcerned with the implication of hanging ornamental golden fasces in the halls of power
So what’s the logic here? That they kept it up there to fuck with your head, as a semi-secret sign that they’re fascist? That’s anti-materialist thinking, little different than anti-Masonists seeing the eye pyramid on a dollar bill and imagining a vast conspiracy from it.
Let’s say that there was a proposal to take the fasces down- what would the case be? That Mussolini’s use of the fasces imbues it with a transcendental evil that reaches back in time and taints it as a symbol before he even used it? From the perspective of the political class, the whole debate would likely be tiresome and not worth having.
If the US is or becomes fascist, it’s going to have very little to do with some old ornaments in the House of Representatives, it’s going to be because of material conditions.
Not really sure if the best response to fascists using a common and ancient symbol is to rip out our artistic and cultural heritage.
There are buildings with Swastikas and Fasces all over Europe and the US that considerably pre-date the Nazis.
It’s not like removing statues of slavers and criminals (which is based), since these older buildings and artworks aren’t and weren’t glorifying the horrendous crimes they later came to be associated with.
me looking at the coat of arms of cuba
god fucking damn it ya beat me to it
| Adopted | 24 April 1906 |
the fasces in the chamber of the house of representatives are from 1857
I don’t mean to come off as pedantic by saying this but, that’s actually the House chamber.
Fixed that, thanks
No problem.
To be fair, I think the US’ use of fasces predates fascism by a couple hundred years. A bunch of the founders were ancient Rome statue avatar dorks.
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Actually it’s an ancient Slavic symbol
Gee United States! How come your mom lets you have two fasces?