HIST 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Italian Fascism, Liberalism, Tabula Rasa
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Teleological understanding: the belief that everything in history leads up to a certain event. ie. believing that everything contributed to the rise of the nazis. Avoid this by looking at all of the various outcomes of an event and using multiple sources. Paligenetic - there is a founding myth associated with the movement. Believing that fascism is anti-democratic and therefore is a: We are all born as a blank slate. ". We are all shaped by the environment we are raised in. As a result, political progress was promised. Supporters were traditionalists (ie. royalists, the aristocracy, and the catholic church). Supported by romantics - didn"t follow reason, placed emphasis on emotion. Some of the supporters believed that history is the struggle of races, one trying to dominate another. Viewed history as a struggle of classes to gain ownership of the means of production. End goal: one class, victory of the working class and their government controls the means of production.
