fascism
pronunciation
How to pronounce fascism in British English:
UK ['fæʃɪzəm]
How to pronounce fascism in American English:
US ['fæʃɪzəm]
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- Noun:
- a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
Word Origin
- fascism (n.)
- 1922, originally used in English in 1920 in its Italian form fascismo (see fascist). Applied to similar groups in Germany from 1923; applied to everyone since 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]