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What does fascism mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the marketplace, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights.
  2. (by extension) 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.
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The post-Hitler decades have witnessed the rise of other manifestations of fascism and variations of killing fields across the globe.
There, too, the working class was blocked from settling accounts with fascism and capitalism.
Whittaker Chambers declared that the writings of Ayn Rand, a hero of the more libertarian right, reeked of fascism and the gas chambers.
It is not such a large step from that mainstream irrationality and hatred to fascism.
Our heroes were the American volunteers fighting fascism in Spain under the banner of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
That he came last with only 9 percent is a great victory in the battle against fascism.

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