different between adventurism vs fascism

English

Etymology

From adventure +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?v?n(t)????z(?)m/

Noun

adventurism (countable and uncountable, plural adventurisms)

1. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. [from 19th c.]
   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, p. 161,^[1]

     […] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […]

   • 1980, Susan Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism” in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Vintage, 1981, pp. 101-102,

     In pornographic literature, films, and gadgetry throughout the world […] the SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism.

2. (politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. [from 20th c.]
   • 1993, Ng?g? wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Nairobi: EAEP, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 22,

     Even where they were aware of the devastating effects of imperialism on the subject peoples, as in Conrad’s description of the dying victims of colonial adventurism in Heart of Darkness, they could not free themselves from the Eurocentric basis of their vision.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 133:

     The rejection of foreign adventurism derived partly from an awareness of the dynastic vulnerability of the Bourbon line, partly from the country's economic as well as its military fragility – and partly too from the increasingly evident limitations of France's traditional international allies.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• Fascism

Etymology

1922, from Italian fascismo (from fascio (“bundle, fasces”), from Latin fasces ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death). Originally only applied (usually capitalized) to Benito Mussolini's Italy which used a representation of the ancient fasces as its emblem.

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?sh'?z(?)m, IPA^(key): /?fæ??z(?)m/

Noun

fascism (usually uncountable, plural fascisms)

1. Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and of society, and repression of criticism or opposition.
2. (by extension) Any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting, and/or violence against largely unarmed populations.

   Hyponyms: alt-right, Falangism, Kahanism, Nazism

Antonyms

• antifascism
• anti-fascism

Derived terms

Related terms

• fascist
• fascistic
• fascistical
• fascistically

Translations

See also

• authoritarianism
• blackshirt
• Brownshirt
• collectivism
• communism, Communism
• globalism
• internationalism
• international socialism
• nationalism
• national socialism, National Socialism, Naziism, Nazism
• socialism
• statism
• totalitarianism

Further reading

• fascism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fascism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia