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He argues Mussolini understood the nation-state's real purpose as fighting wars and that a mythology of war can make people happily fight and die.
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Mussolini
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And it was Mussolini who basically understood that the real purpose of a nation -state is to fight wars. In fact, it is wars..."
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After World War I, extreme nationalism rises as fascism, which Jiang defines as an extreme version of nationalism.
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"And it was Mussolini who basically understood that the real purpose of a nation -state is to fight wars. In fact, it is wars..."
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"We have created our myth. The myth is a faith, a passion. It is not necessary for it to be a reality. It is..."
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"...Okay? Fascism is just the extreme version of nationalism. This is Mussolini who is the founder of fascism. And he explains fascism in this..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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