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fas|cism

Noun [MASS NOUN]

-An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.

-(In general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices: this is yet another example of health fascism in action

 

The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43); the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also Fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach; authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy, absolute rule, Nazism, rightism, militarism; Nationalism, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, chauvinism, jingoism, isolationism; neo-fascism, neo-Nazism; corporativism, corporatism

 

German, historicalHitlerism

Spanish, historicalFrancoism, Falangism

 

[ANTONYMS] democracy, liberalism