Editing Fascism (section)

====Impact of World War I====
[[File:Italian Arditi.jpg|thumb|Members of Italy's {{lang|it|[[Arditi]]}} corps, shown here in 1918 holding daggers, a symbol of their group. They were formed in 1917 as groups of soldiers trained for dangerous missions, characterized by a refusal to surrender and a willingness to fight to the death. Their black uniforms inspired those of the Italian Fascist movement.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Corni |first=Gustavo |date=26 August 2015 |title=Fascism and the Radical Right |url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/fascism-and-the-radical-right/ |encyclopedia=International Encyclopedia of the First World War |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250401005815/https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/fascism-and-the-radical-right/ |archive-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>]]

Fascists viewed World War I as bringing revolutionary changes in the nature of war, society, the state and technology, as the advent of [[total war]] and mass mobilization had broken down the distinction between civilian and combatant, as civilians had become a critical part in economic production for the war effort and thus arose a "military citizenship" in which all citizens were involved to the military in some manner during the war.{{sfnmp|Griffin|2006|1pp=140–141|Gentile|2006b|2p=670|Mann|2004|3p=65}} World War I had resulted in the rise of a powerful state capable of mobilizing millions of people to serve on the front lines or provide economic production and logistics to support those on the front lines, as well as having unprecedented authority to intervene in the lives of citizens.{{sfnmp|Griffin|2006|1pp=140–141|Gentile|2006b|2p=670|Mann|2004|3p=65}} Fascists viewed technological developments of weaponry and the state's total mobilization of its population in the war as symbolizing the beginning of a new era fusing state power with [[mass politics]], technology and particularly the mobilizing myth that they contended had triumphed over the myth of progress and the era of liberalism.{{sfnmp|Griffin|2006|1pp=140–141|Gentile|2006b|2p=670}}