para-fascism
English
editEtymology
editFrom para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + fascism.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpæɹəˈfæʃɪz(ə)m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpɛɹəˈfæʃˌɪzəm/
- Hyphenation: pa‧ra-fasc‧i‧sm
Noun
edit- (fascism) A social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices.
- Synonyms: pseudo-fascism, semi-fascism
- 1996, Gunter Berghaus, Günter Berghaus, Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 19:
- Portugal, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic States, all provide examples of this Ersatz fascism, or what might be termed 'para-fascism'.
- 2010 October 27, C. Rundle, K. Sturge, Translation Under Fascism, Springer, →ISBN, page 113:
- 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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editsocial order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices
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