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Mussolini

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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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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definition

After World War I, extreme nationalism rises as fascism, which Jiang defines as an extreme version of nationalism.

Timestamped Evidence

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

Transcript

"...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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The Population Becomes The Weapon

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Reading

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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