Fascism defines itself explicitly against democracy as rule by sheer numbers

Evidence

See, for example, Mussolini “The war was ‘revolutionary’ in the sense that it liquidated in rivers of blood the century of democracy, the century of number, of majority, of quantity”, in Which way is the world going? , 1922; or again, “Fascism is against democracy which levels the people down to the largest number, bringing it down to the level of the majority”, in The Doctrine of Fascism , 1932. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2215

Categorization

• XREF: Gramsci’s own frame that fascism arises where the ‘century of number’ has already been liquidated connects forward to later critiques of majoritarian democracy as a hollowed-out form in the Islamophobia literature. — connects to: Mussolini framed fascism as opposition to democracy and majority rule
• DEFINE: Supplies the primary-source definition of fascism’s anti-democratic self-understanding, useful vocabulary for the module.
• SHARE: A quotable Mussolini line worth sending to anyone working on interwar political rhetoric.

Broader Connections

• Mussolini framed fascism as opposition to democracy and majority rule #corroborates (0.95)