fascism

fascism
fascism 1922, originally used in English 1920 in its Italian form (see FASCIST (Cf. fascist)). Applied to similar groups in Germany from 1923; applied to everyone since the rise of the Internet.
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. [Robert O. Paxton, "The Anatomy of Fascism," 2004]

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  • fascism — fasc ism (f[a^]sh [i^]z m) n. 1. a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government; opposed to {democracy} and {liberalism}. [WordNet 1.5] 2. an authoritarian system of government under absolute control of a single dictator,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fascism — fascism, fascist When Fowler wrote in 1926, Mussolini had not long been established in power, and the future of these words, and their Italian counterparts fascismo and fascista, was uncertain. Fowler suspended judgement on their anglicization… …   Modern English usage

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  • fascism — ► NOUN 1) an authoritarian and nationalistic right wing system of government. 2) extreme right wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice. DERIVATIVES fascist noun & adjective fascistic adjective. ORIGIN Italian fascismo, from fascio… …   English terms dictionary

  • fascism — [fash′iz΄əm] n. [It fascismo < fascio, political group < L fascis: see FASCES] 1. [F ] the doctrines, methods, or movement of the Fascisti 2. [sometimes F ] a system of government characterized by rigid one party dictatorship, forcible… …   English World dictionary

  • fascism — /fash iz euhm/, n. 1. (sometimes cap.) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often… …   Universalium

  • fascism —    by John Protevi   In Anti Oedipus, the pole of paranoid desire is opposed to schizophrenic or revolutionary desire. Perhaps we owe the impression that a major focus of Anti Oedipus is fascism to Michel Foucault s preface to the English… …   The Deleuze dictionary

  • fascism —    by John Protevi   In Anti Oedipus, the pole of paranoid desire is opposed to schizophrenic or revolutionary desire. Perhaps we owe the impression that a major focus of Anti Oedipus is fascism to Michel Foucault s preface to the English… …   The Deleuze dictionary

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