Ryan’s Reviews > All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—and Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives > Status Update

"Fascism comes from a Latin term, fasces, that means “bundle of sticks.” It evokes the image of a bunch of wood fastened together and attached to an ax-head; the term was used in Italian politics in the early twentieth century to describe the banding together of similar political factions. The basic idea in that word-image is that there’s strength in same-group unity."

Hmmm