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Antonyms for fascism

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fash-iz-uh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæʃ ɪz əm


Definition of fascism

Origin :
  • 1922, originally used in English 1920 in its Italian form (see 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]
  • noun political system of dictatorship
Example sentences :
  • But President Ubico is not hopelessly addicted to one brand of fascism.
  • Extract from : « Secret Armies » by John L. Spivak
  • It does not surprise us that the logic of fascism ends in death.
  • Extract from : « Proclaim Liberty! » by Gilbert Seldes
  • At first glance, the feudal nature of fascism seems unimportant.
  • Extract from : « Proclaim Liberty! » by Gilbert Seldes
  • This is an open principle of fascism, as it is of all dictatorships and "total" states.
  • Extract from : « Proclaim Liberty! » by Gilbert Seldes
  • He was seeing the face of fascism for the first time, he wrote, and seeing it at close range.
  • Extract from : « The Five Arrows » by Allan Chase
  • In Fascism man is an individual who is the nation and the country.
  • Extract from : « Readings on Fascism and National Socialism » by Various
  • Fascism respects the God of the ascetics, of the saints and of the heroes.
  • Extract from : « Readings on Fascism and National Socialism » by Various
  • To facilitate the change Fascism has created its own syndicalism.
  • Extract from : « Readings on Fascism and National Socialism » by Various
  • Fascism learns from him not only its doctrines but its action as well.
  • Extract from : « Readings on Fascism and National Socialism » by Various
  • The political doctrine of Fascism is not the whole of Fascism.
  • Extract from : « Readings on Fascism and National Socialism » by Various

Synonyms for fascism

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