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It’s true that fasces is an Italian word, but Fascism was coined by Benito Mussolini in 1915. I do see your point about the characteristics being present throughout Ancient Rome though.
The modern term of fascism can be applied in retrospect. For example, early America can easily be described as an Apartheid during chattel slavery and the Jim Crow era. And the ethnic cleansing of native Americans can be described as a genocide despite the term being coined in the 1940s
Considering in the times of ancient Rome that barbarian, which is a dehumanizing term, referred to practically any native people Rome was intent on conquering to expand the empire. I think it fits