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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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Why is it only authoritarian if it comes from corperations? So if you have a communistic society where no corperations exist, all just the government.. communism cant be authoritative? That doesnt track.

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realcaseyrollins ✝️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 

So if you have a communistic society where no corperations exist, all just the government

I do think that would be fascism too. Fascism usually has the state take over private enterprises, or force them to do what they want, which aren’t effectually that much different from each other.
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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @realcaseyrollins ✝️ 

I think you are confusing specific examples of facism vs facism as a concept (which can take any form)... The definition of facism is:

 a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

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realcaseyrollins ✝️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I see. That’s what I get for getting my definition of fascism from #Wikipedia!
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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @realcaseyrollins ✝️ 

Yea dictionaries are usually better as wikipedia isnt trying to define a word, its trying to explain its history, which are slightly different things.

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