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fascism Definition

fas·cism (fas̸h′iz′əm)

noun

  1. the doctrines, methods, or movement of the Fascisti
  2. a system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition, private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control, belligerent nationalism, racism, and militarism, etc.
    1. a political movement based on such policies
    2. fascist behavior

Etymology: It fascismo < fascio, political group < L fascis: see fasces

fascism Synonyms

fascism

n.

dictatorship, one-party rule, autocracy, regimentation, racism, totalitarianism, Nazism, National Socialism, Hitlerism, Third Reich, despotism, absolutism, demagogy, authoritarianism, oppression; see also government 2.

Antonyms democracy*, self-government, socialism.

fascism Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • defeat: Millions of people shed their blood to defeat fascism in the Second World War.
  • fight: They don't want to fight fascism at all.
  • oppose: Opposing the ban on the DHKC, defending freedom of thought means opposing fascism.
  • hate: All those who hated fascism would have their chance to fight back.
  • combat: Some trades councils that were virtually moribund have been revived by their new-found role of taking the lead in combating fascism in their area.
  • stop: The Working Class Will Stop Fascism... Not The State!

Converse of subject

  • threaten: The trade union bureaucrats can permit themselves such boastful formulas only because they are not immediately threatened by fascism, or by Communism.

Adjective modifier

  • Italian: Italian Life Under Fascism Virtual exhibition exploring the nature of Italian fascism in the early twentieth century.
  • Islamic: The London bombings revealed only to those in denial the extent to which Islamic fascism has taken root.
  • generic: The case for granting German citizenship to the alien concept " generic fascism " ' , Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften, vol.
  • German: Fascist government of Franco comes to power in 1936 Fascism German fascism takes power in 1933.
  • European: This was the Nazi contribution to European fascism - where race is all.
  • religious: These pages document one man's journey through the abyss of religious fascism.

Noun used with modifier

  • body: Since then, huge steps have been made in the fight against " body fascism " .
  • health: Health promotion can as easily produce " health fascism " as improved health.
  • Hitlerite: The attack on civil liberties under the pretext of fighting terrorism draws parallels with the rise of Hitlerite fascism.
  • fight: Fight the against right wing, and fight fascism.
  • century: Tell that to the victims of 20th century fascism and communism - never mind the almost total absence of such values in previous centuries.

Preposition: in

  • country: There is no place for racism and fascism in this country.

Preposition: as

  • movement: The major American newspapers at the time supported fascism as a legitimate political movement.
fascism Quotes

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

—Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg

Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

—Plath, Sylvia

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

—Mussolini, Benito also called Il Duce [the Leader]

In fact, they are the classic scapegoats.Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of thetransvestite.

—White, Edmund

It isusual tospeakof the Fascist objective asthe'beehive state', which does a grave injustice to bees. A world of rabbits ruled by stoats would be nearer the mark.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

We were obsessed by the feeling that this was the supreme cause of our time. The cause of poets and of writers.The cause of freedom. And that unlessthe cause of anti-Fascism was won, unless Fascism was defeated, we would be unable to exist as writers.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold