"The bourgeoisie even took the word 'Fascism' from working class organisations in Italy, which were often called Fasci. It is significant that Fascism first defined itself as a form of organisation and not as a programme. The word referred both to a symbol of state power (fasces, or bundles, born e before high officials in Ancient Rome), and to a will to get people together in bundles (groups). Fascisms only programme is to organise, to forcibly make the components of society converge."
Gilles Dauvé, When Insurrections Die, Endnotes #1, October 2008, Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the 20th Century.
Artist: Michael Wilkinson
Title: Knowledge and Interest (Study)
Date: 2011
Materials: Acrylic on linen with oil, beeswax, oak shelf, pine dowel, string, blackboard paint, chalk with verdigris, card, cellophane and cutting showing 'Via Fani massacre, 1979'
Dimensions: 78 x 68.5 x 7.5 cm
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