One-party rule is justified by wartime appeals to unity above class interest

Evidence

Mussolini, in his speech of November 14, 1933, defends his one-party rule with arguments current in all nation-states during a war: A single political party is needed so “that political discipline may exist …and that the bond of a common fate may unite everyone above contrasting interests” (Benito Mussolini, Four Speeches on the Corporate State, Rome, 1935). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2476

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the imagined community of the nation and how wartime rhetoric of common fate legitimizes eliminating pluralism — a concept in the scaffolding toolkit for Islamophobia readings.