
thumb|Gabriele d'Annunzio, a prominent Italian proto-fascist (centre; with the cane), with his in the [[Italian Regency of Carnaro in 1919]] Proto-fascism represents the direct predecessor ideologies and cultural movements that influenced and formed the basis of fascism. The term protofascism is also used in a slightly more general sense to refer to any political movement whose activities make the emergence of fascism more likely.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).