superfascism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ fascism

Noun[edit]

superfascism (uncountable)

  1. Extreme fascism.
    • 1935, Prince D. S. Mirsky, The Intelligentsia of Great Britain, page 87:
      The words "plan" and "five-year plan" are most fashionable among Britain's fascists and social fascists. And even Bertrand Russell, however sincere he may be in his horror of the coming superfascism he imagines, []
    • 1970, Frank Honywill George, Science and the Crisis in Society, page 131:
      [] the too complete control that we could have exercised on people — what we have referred to again and again as totalitarianism, in order to give it a simple label; it should perhaps have been called despotism or superfascism.
    • 2004, Roger Griffin, Matthew Feldman, Fascism: The social dynamics of fascism, page 90:
      Though he had little doubt that Hitler's New Order would fail, Trotsky by now believed that if capitalism survived, superfascism would become necessary to preserve the 'dictatorship of the trusts.'
    • 2021, John O'Loughlin, Collected Supernotational Writings Vol. I:
      No less than Transcendental Socialism is a kind of Supercommunism in relation to Communism proper, so Social Transcendentalism is a kind of Superfascism in relation to Fascism proper.