They are what separate say, fascism, from say Communism, Ba'athism and other such one-party ideologies.
Note also that the Merriam-Webster dictionary is a popular dictionary where I'm arguing from the specific subset of history dedicated to studying interwar and WWII-era fascism, with my main sources those of Michael Mann, as they're the most recent analysis of *all* the historical fascists.
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Re: Some useful bits of this "analysis":
Date: 29/9/10 11:26 (UTC)Note also that the Merriam-Webster dictionary is a popular dictionary where I'm arguing from the specific subset of history dedicated to studying interwar and WWII-era fascism, with my main sources those of Michael Mann, as they're the most recent analysis of *all* the historical fascists.