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- noun Alternative spelling of
fascism .
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In 1946, shortly after the war, George Orwell argued in his essay "Politics and the English Language" that "the word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'"
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The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy 1922–43, and the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also fascist.
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The term Fascism has been treated to quite a renaissance lately.
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The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (192243), and the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also fascist.
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The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of
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Fascism, the Italian word for socialism. fas ⋅ ces [fas-eez] - noun (usually used with a singular verb) a bundle of rods containing an ax with the blade projecting, borne before Roman magistrates as an emblem of official power. the 20th century version of the fascist hammer and sickle. celtnik on April 4, 2009 at 5: 10 PM
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Just for those of you who don't know, people who use the term Fascism and Justice, let me clarify one thing for you.
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Orwell did not mean to say that Fascist politics or attitudes no longer exist, but merely to point out that, in the aftermath of World War II, the word "Fascism" must always be used as a rhetorical device or political propaganda.
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(More on the reprehensible D'Souza here.) "Fascism" is now, as noted, undergoing its own transformation, to the degree that the correct usage of it is met with incomprehension.
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More likely, "Fascism" is the meme-du-jour because it conjures up fearful images for older people who lived through or at least know about WWII -- where Fascism posed a real threat of world domination.
Is That Legal?: Who Says the President Doesn't Know Irony? 2006
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