Meanings
plural postfascisms · alternative post-fascism · alternative post-Fascism
- uncountableusuallyA new form of fascism.
Trumpian postfascism, in other words, emerged as an “accident” specific to U.S. neoliberal capitalism.
2021, Barney Warf, editor, Political Landscapes of Donald Trump, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1411 more example
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.
2019, David Broder, transl., The New Faces of Fascism […] , Verso Books, translation of Les Nouveaux visages du fascisme […] , by Enzo Traverso, →ISBN, page 6
Origin
Translations
German Postfaschismus
- Postfaschismusnew form of fascism
Hungarian posztfasizmus
- posztfasizmusnew form of fascism
Italian postfascismo
- postfascismonew form of fascism
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