postfascism

English

Alternative forms

• post-fascism, post-Fascism

Etymology

post- +‎ fascism

Noun

postfascism (usually uncountable, plural postfascisms)

1. A new form of fascism.

   Coordinate term: neofascism

   • 2019, David Broder, transl., The New Faces of Fascism […] , Verso Books, translation of Les Nouveaux visages du fascisme […] , by Enzo Traverso, →ISBN, page 6:

     Postfascism should also be distinguised from neofascism, that is, the attempt to perpetuate and regenerate old fascism. […] Postfascism is something else: in most cases, it does indeed come from a classical fascist background, but it has now changed its forms.

   • 2021, Barney Warf, editor, Political Landscapes of Donald Trump, Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:

     Trumpian postfascism, in other words, emerged as an “accident” specific to U.S. neoliberal capitalism.

Related terms

• postfascist

Translations

new form of fascism

• German: Postfaschismus (de) m
• Hungarian: posztfasizmus
• Italian: postfascismo (it) m