10 sentences with 'fascism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fascism and other words derived from it.
• « Soon after, the new (related) ideologies of fascism and Nazism put racial superiority at the very centre of their worldviews. »
• « While their politics were as murky as some of their artwork at first, after World War I most of the Futurists embraced fascism, seeing in fascism a political movement that reflected their desire for a new, virile and contemptuous politics of democracy. »
• « It was in this context of anger and disappointment that fascism and its racially obsessed offshoot, Nazism, emerged. »
• « The term fascism was invented by the Italian Fascist Party itself, based on the term fascii: a bundle of sticks with an axe embedded in the middle. Symbolically, the sticks are individually weak but strong as a group, and the axe represented power over life and death. »
• « One place of particular importance in the early history of fascism was France. There, a right-wing monarchist group called Actione Française had existed since the Dreyfus affair, but transformed itself into a French fascist group despite remaining wedded to traditional monarchist and Catholic ideologies. »
• « Colonial troops fought in the name of defending democracy against fascism and tyranny, but in their home countries they had no access to democratic rights. Many independence movements, such as that in India, refused to help in the war effort as a result. »
• « Whereas the democratic experiments of the inter-war period had all too often ended in the disaster of fascism, stable democratic governments emerged in the post-war period and are still present today, albeit in modified forms in some cases such as France. »
• « Also in stark contrast to the political situation of the inter-war years was the power of the political centre. In short, the far right had been completely compromised by the disastrous triumph of fascism. »
• « Almost all the major far-right parties had been fascist or had allied themselves with fascism before the war, and after the war the far-right politicians were forced into political silence by the embarrassing debacle of their pre-war success. Fascist parties did not re-emerge in earnest until the 1960s, and even then they remained marginal groups until the 1990s. »
• « According to the book "The End of History and the Last Man", human rights would be guaranteed by the political system that also provided the legal framework for a thriving capitalist economy. All alternatives had already been tried and failed, after all, from the old order of monarchy and nobility to modern fascism and, from 1991 onwards, Soviet communism. Thus, the old dictatorships would (if they had not already done so) join the fold of American-style democracy and capitalism soon enough. »