As nouns the difference between fascism and genocide
is that
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 while
genocide is the systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.
As a verb genocide is
to commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
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
genocide
Noun
The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.
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Usage notes
(Genocide definitions)
Genocide is defined in various laws, and used in varying ways; characterization of an act as “genocide” is a strong condemnation, and may prove contentious.
Narrowly speaking, genocide was coined to mean, and is generally used in law to mean, the destruction of an ethnic group qua group, whether killing of all members of the group or other means, such as dispersing the group. In common usage, “genocide” is often used to mean “systematic mass killing”, whether or not the purpose is the destruction of the group or some other purpose, such as terrorizing the group.
Specific genocides are often capitalized, e.g. "Armenian G enocide".
Derived terms
* autogenocide, auto-genocide
* cultural genocide
* genocidal
* genocidally
* genocidism
* genocidist
Related terms
* ethnocide, democide
(suffixsee)
See also
* crime against humanity
* dehumanization
* democide
* ethnic cleansing
* holocaust, Holocaust
* Holodomor
* mass murder
* Porajmos
* pogrom
* Shoah
* war crime
Verb
(en-verb)
To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
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