fascism
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- n a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
- He notes that America's fascism would consist of an alliance of big business with government, to produce a new corporate authoritarianism that Gross thought subverted .
- The avatar of fascism posed the century's greatest threat to democracy and redefined the meaning of evil forever.
- That, in its essence, is fascismownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power.