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“Mr. Rearden,” said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, “if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders—what would you tell him to do?” “I . . . don’t know. What . . . could he do? What would you tell him?” “To shrug.”
And Gentile also said that Fascism was the ultimate form of democracy. "The Nationalist state was an aristocratic state that constructed itself out of the force it inherited from its origin, which made it valued by the masses. The Fascist State, on the other hand, is a popular state and, in that sense, a democratic State par excellence." Democracy means 'People Power'.
FASCISM DEFINED | the Difference Between Fascism and National Socialism
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The Chinese and Persians did not lack technological inventions such as steam engines (which could be freely copied or bought). They lacked the values, myths, judicial apparatus and sociopolitical structures that took centuries to form and mature in the West and which could not be copied and internalised rapidly.
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