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Adventurism vs Fascism - What's the difference?

adventurism | fascism |

As nouns the difference between adventurism and fascism

is that adventurism is the behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking while fascism is a political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the market place, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights. Originally only applied (usually capitalized) to Benito Mussolini's Italy.

adventurism

English

Noun

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  • The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking.
  • (politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 133:
  • *:The rejection of foreign adventurism derived partly from an awareness of the dynastic vulnerability of the Bourbon line, partly from the country's economic as well as its military fragility – and partly too from the increasingly evident limitations of France's traditional international allies.
  • fascism

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (historical) A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the market place, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights. Originally only applied (usually capitalized) to (Benito Mussolini)'s Italy.
  • By vague analogy, any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting and violence against largely unarmed populations.
  • Derived terms

    * anti-fascism * fascist, fascistic, fascistically * fascistoid * Islamofascism, Islamic fascism * neofascism * technofascism

    Antonyms

    * Anti-fascism

    See also

    * authoritarianism * Blackshirt * Brownshirt * Nazism, Naziism, National Socialism * totalitarianism