No, the Roman fasces are not fascist. Imperial Roman power is not fascism, even if fascism tries to fashion itself to Imperial Rome. If A claims inspiration from B, it does not mean that they're the same thing nor interchangeable.
The difference between the two is 2000 years and one being an entire civilization that spanned hundreds of years, and the other a relatively short lived political ideology, based on reactionary nationalism, autarchy and later anti-semitism (racial purity was more a Hitler kinda thing).
No, the Roman fasces are not fascist. Imperial Roman power is not fascism, even if fascism tries to fashion itself to Imperial Rome. If A claims inspiration from B, it does not mean that they're the same thing nor interchangeable.
The difference between the two is 2000 years and one being an entire civilization that spanned hundreds of years, and the other a relatively short lived political ideology, based on reactionary nationalism, autarchy and later anti-semitism (racial purity was more a Hitler kinda thing).