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Fascism vs Empire - What's the difference?

fascism | empire |

As a noun fascism

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As a verb empire is

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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

    empire

    English

    (wikipedia empire)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
  • A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
  • A state ruled by an emperor.
  • An expansive and wealthy corporation.
  • the McDonald's fast food empire

    Derived terms

    * American Empire * British Empire * First French Empire * German Empire * Holy Roman Empire * Portuguese Empire * Roman Empire * Second French Empire * Spanish Empire * empirehood * global empire * colonial empire

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