Meaning of para-fascism | Babel Free

Definitions

A social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Portugal, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic States, all provide examples of this Ersatz fascism, or what might be termed 'para-fascism'.”

“It is perhaps too early to say how Spanish para-fascism differed from (national-) Catholicism in its treatment of the foreign.”

CEFR level