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Re:Sourcehut blog condeming Trump and supporters by nikolay on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:31AM (#25787697)
Aren't we a bit abusing the historical terms lately? Do you know what Fascism is? Do you know the difference between Fascists and Nazis? What is the difference between them two and the Communists?
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Re:Sourcehut blog condeming Trump and supporters by trianglem on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:15AM (#25788666)
Yeah far right authoritarians are fascists by definition.
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Re:Sourcehut blog condeming Trump and supporters by hagibborim on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:41AM (#25792113)
No. Fascists are authoritarians by definition, but the one-dimensional spectrum of "rightwing" and "leftwing" is not suitable for any treatment of fascism that is based in history.

"Fascism" and "right-wing authoritarian" are synonymous, and that loss of nuance is giving us blind spots

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Re:Sourcehut blog condeming Trump and supporters by hagibborim on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:50PM (#25795432)
EDIT: "Fascism" and "right-wing authoritarian[ism]" are [not] synonymous
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