as in Communism
rule, control, or leadership by one person with absolute power
A soaring crime rate and civil unrest were harbingers to the rise of fascism in the country.
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Recent Examples of fascism
Olson’s history of these women is a shot of inspiration for those resisting current fascism.
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Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
And the focus of this production changed more to how fascism was on the rise again.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, The Director, documents the little compromises that led G. W. Pabst, like millions of other people, to accept fascism.
—Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2025
Jews tend to teach their children to be wary of fascism from a very young age, with its nationalist bombast, its cult of masculinity, its contempt for pluralism and its relentless, bludgeoning lies.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 21 May 2025
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Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
And the focus of this production changed more to how fascism was on the rise again.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, The Director, documents the little compromises that led G. W. Pabst, like millions of other people, to accept fascism.
—Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2025
Jews tend to teach their children to be wary of fascism from a very young age, with its nationalist bombast, its cult of masculinity, its contempt for pluralism and its relentless, bludgeoning lies.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fascism
tyranny
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In Serra’s work, nothing claims to be site-specific, and nothing claims to be seen, shown, or commemorated—these are the actual conditions of object experience in a social and economic order ruled by the dual tyranny of compulsive consumption and spectacle.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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Opposition to tyranny lies at the heart of every freedom movement.—
Daniel Twining,
National Review,
22 May 2025
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