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fascism
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Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe, influenced by national syndicalism . Fascism originated in Italy during World War I and spread to other European countries . Fascism opposes liberalism ...
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n. 1 (context historical English) A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the marketplace, repression of criticism or ...
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n. a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
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fascism \fasc"ism\ (f[a^]sh"[i^]z'm) n. a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government; -- opposed to democracy and liberalism . an authoritarian system of government under absolute control of a single dictator, allowing no ...
Usage examples of fascism.
For Benjamin, aestheticizing the political is a defining feature of fascism.
I discussed earlier in Chapter 1, such an aestheticizing of the political is a defining feature of fascism.
The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.
The counterrevolutions of fascism only serve to reinforce the general argument.
Manhattan-based club founded ten years ago to provide information about creativity and giftedness, now finds itself accused of fascism.
Soviet Politbureau rejects allegations emanating from Washington and Bonn that they have in any way involved themselves in the struggle by the working-class peoples of he United Kingdom against the resurgence of fascism in hat country.
Nazi priests, rich preppie Republican bigots, and the dark night of fascism under Senator Joe McCarthy.
Ownership has never been abolished, there are still capitalists and workers, and -- this is the important point, and the real reason why rich men all over the world tend to sympathize with Fascism -- generally speaking the same people are capitalists and the same people workers as before the Nazi revolution.
Previously we all used to assume that Fascism was so self-evidently horrible that no thinking person would have anything to do with it, and also that the Fascists always wiped out the intelligentsia when they had the opportunity.
The reason they sob about the dark night of fascism under McCarthy is to prevent Americans from ever noticing that liberals consistently attack their own country.
They scream about the dark night of fascism under McCarthy to prevent Americans from ever noticing that liberals sabotaged their own country.
Yet Bonapartism is still insufficient to destroy completely the organisations of the working class, and a special form of reaction is therefore required to perform this task - fascism.
English Socialists of nearly all colours have wanted to rnake a stand against Fascism, but at the same time they have aimed at making their own countrymen unwarlike.
After all, how could one argue with the girl who was, back at their New York City college, the chairman of the Free Speech Committee, the president of the antibrutality association, the vice chairman of the crusade to end fascism, and chairperson of the Stop Secrecy in Government Committee, ad hoc Presidential War Crimes division.
She despised his Fascism of the past, his Anglicism of the present, and she used him to further her own ends by threatening to expose his wartime treachery.