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para-fascism

noun
/ˌpæɹəˈfæʃɪz(ə)m/UK/ˌpɛɹəˈfæʃˌɪzəm/US

Etymology

From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + fascism.

  1. derived from fasces
  2. borrowed from fascismo
  3. prefixed as para-fascism — “para + fascism”

Definitions

  1. A social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but…

    A social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices.

    • Portugal, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic States, all provide examples of this Ersatz fascism, or what might be termed 'para-fascism'.
    • It is perhaps too early to say how Spanish para-fascism differed from (national-) Catholicism in its treatment of the foreign.

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