Meanings
alternative parafascism · alternative para-Fascism
- uncountablefascismA social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices.
It is perhaps too early to say how Spanish para-fascism differed from (national-) Catholicism in its treatment of the foreign.
2010 October 27, C. Rundle, K. Sturge, Translation Under Fascism, Springer, →ISBN, page 1131 more example
Portugal, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic States, all provide examples of this Ersatz fascism, or what might be termed 'para-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 19Synonyms: pseudo-fascism, semi-fascism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices.
Origin
From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + fascism.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French parafascisme
- parafascismesocial order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices
Italian parafascismo
- parafascismosocial order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices
Portuguese parafascismo
- parafascismosocial order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices
Russian парафаши́зм
- парафаши́зм (parafašízm)social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices
Spanish parafascismo
- parafascismosocial order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices
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