different between fascism vs anarchy

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

English

Etymology

From New Latin anarchia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (anarkhía).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ.n?.ki/
• (US) enPR: ?n?är-k?, IPA^(key): /?æn.??.ki/

Noun

anarchy (countable and uncountable, plural anarchies)

1. (uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
2. (uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
3. (countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
4. Confusion in general; disorder.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:disorder

Antonyms

• (all senses): nonanarchy (rare)
• (disorder): order

Derived terms

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