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gnabgib • today at 2:22 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

No that's not it, say again?

> A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.


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tdhz77 • today at 2:41 PM

Timothy Snyder argues that it is impossible to define satisfactorily as a neat, static formula. Instead, he defines fascism as a dynamic "way of seeing the world that denies reason", operating as a cult of will and emotion over objective fact. Rather than relying on single-sentence definitions