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What does fascism mean?

Definitions in simple English

fascism Noun

— A political system that needs absolute obedience and control of the market and the people by companies and government joined together under the cult leadership of the dictator and a devoted military hierarchy where people are above one another. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis set up a government based on fascism.

— Used today to describe any kind of authoritarian system that violates the rights of ordinary, unarmed people.

fascism

— noun a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)

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How do I use fascism in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You can't equate nationalism with fascism.

Fascism and communism as they were realised demonstrate two faces of the same monster.

The Ribbon of Saint George is a symbol of fascism.

Movie subtitles

Lots of people make the error of grouping Pareto and Spengler together because they both feel that democracy is through, whereas actually Spengler is the philosophical basis for Fascism.

We can sing about academic freedom all we want, but fascism's on the rise since the Manchurian Incident.

I wrote a piece about the real meaning of the war. the fight against Fascism, why every American had to get in there and pitch in.

And don't ever let anybody tell you. you were a sucker to fight in the war against Fascism.

The fact that socialism is better than fascism is not enough to keep us alive!

Death to Fascism.

Comrades, friends, workers, every May 1st, fascism or no fascism, we've always come here.

Under fascism.

No problems after the fall of fascism?

They border on out-and-out fascism!

Fascism is something you grow out of.

Thank you, sir, for not holding fascism against me.

Germany -- fascism, Hitler.

Sometimes selfishness can get to be a cause, an organized force. Even a government. Then it's called fascism.

Vittorio Prozzi represents Italian Nee-Fascism.

The fact that Socialism is better than Fascism, won't keep us alive.

Six months in confinement for Anti-Fascism when he was 25.

It's countries like this that give fascism a bad name.

Fascism!

That our Mussolini is better than Hitler. our fascism better than Nazism!

Down with fascism!

Those who are screaming at the back of the room should not talk about fascism, repression or dictatorship.

Italy and Fascism.

Young, because Fascism has rejuvenated our blood with shining ideals that are very ancient.

When Fascism ruled.

Fascism, Franco, racism.

You understand what fascism was the sergeant Cecor?

From the war, of fascism.

I remember an editorial. where he wrote that fascism was the dollar of ethics.

I think advertising is a form of fascism.

You shouldn't be scared. Fascism won't come to pass.

Fascism must pass, and pass it will. like sailboats, miniskirts and rock 'n' roll.

Death to fascism.

Fascism. Hitler.

What kind of fascism is that if it has melted like snow?

Fascism will not pass!

For faith in Fascism, very few. But you, no.

For repressing Anti-Fascism.

News and current affairs

Communism, still wrapped in the laurel leaf of anti-fascism, had a wide intellectual and emotional appeal, not only in the so-called Third World, but also in Western Europe.

These were the methods of fascism and communism, and they would, in the end, have destroyed not just economic, but political, liberty.

I am old enough to remember both the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and the ascent and collapse of Nazism, of Fascism, and of Soviet Communism.

Spain, for example, saw its best minds drained away for five centuries, notably following Fascism's victory in the Spanish Civil War.

And sometimes the killers reach for ideological justifications: building pure Islam, struggling for communism or fascism, or saving the West.

Collective punishment also means not only a type of amnesia by Italians and Romanians about what happened under fascism, nazism, communism, but also for their own national histories.

Popper pointed out that an open society can be endangered by abstract, universal ideologies like communism and fascism.

Whether threatened by fascism, communism, terrorism, or any other form of fanaticism, freedom must defend itself in ways that do not become self-destructive.

The years that followed witnessed pan-European carnage, instability throughout the 1920's, and the rise of fascism and communism, culminating in the death of countless millions during World War II.

Fascism and Soviet communism were constructed on the backs off unwilling people.

Such values animated the fight against Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism, fascism, and military dictatorship; in their name, decolonization was achieved, and minorities gained equality and dignity.

But the view, espoused by Israel's new right-wing friends, that Israel is on the front line against Islamic fascism, is equally mendacious.

Indeed, two of history's most terrifying ideologies, fascism and communism, were devised and embraced in continental Europe.

Many communists led the resistance against fascism in Europe, and many people believed that communism was the wave of the future.

As for fascism, its political heirs in countries like Italy and France must contend with the stigma of the past.

Faith in civil society, indeed, is still interpreted by many as leftism, anarchism or syndicalism; someone has even called it proto-fascism.

The Soviet Union also wanted to surround itself with a protective buffer of like-minded states, and Italy's Benito Mussolini was proud that for a time fascism was a competitive export.

People have finally come to understand that anti-Americanism, born on the extreme right and fed, in Germany, for example, by the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his acolytes, is a fixture of fascism.

Walser's stance amounted to a desperate call to allow his country to shape a new national identity - one that reflected its resolute repudiation of fascism and adoption of democracy, rather than its highly regrettable (and regretted) history.