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Fascism vs Protofascist - What's the difference?

fascism | protofascist |

As a noun 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.

As an adjective protofascist is

showing the beginnings of fascism.

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

    External links

    * ("fascism" on Wikipedia) English words suffixed with -ism

    protofascist

    English

    Alternative forms

    *proto-fascist

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (politics) Showing the beginnings of fascism
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=August 9, author=Jack Helbig, title=Marie and Bruce, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Even Lemon, for all her protofascist beliefs, wins our sympathy. }}
  • * {{quote-news, 2008, April 7, Adolph Reed Jr., , The Nation citation
    • , passage=When Newt Gingrich and his protofascist comrades took over Congress in 1994, they sneeringly boasted that they intended to take the federal government back to the 1920s. }}