Semi-fascism

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Semi-fascism is an imprecise term, which is used to refer to politics movements that share some characteristics with traditional fascism. [1]

It was used by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, on August 25, 2022 to highlight extremist and ultraconservative positions and characteristics of the Republican Party. [2] [3] [4] It has also been used to describe dictatorial governments that do have some, but not all, of the characteristics of fascism, for example Francoist Spain, [5] [6] and the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. [7]

It has been used to describe Peronist orthodoxy in Argentina, [8] and the far-right government of Alexander Tsankov in Bulgaria. [9]

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References

  1. Chait, Jonathan (October 12, 2022). "How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party". Intelligencer. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
  2. Biden, Joe (August 25, 2022). "Remarks by President Biden at a Reception for the Democratic National Committee". White House . Federal government of the United States. Archived from the original on August 26, 2022. Retrieved May 24, 2023. And what we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It's not just — it's not just Trump. It's the –it's the entire philosophy that underpins — it's — I'm going say something — it's almost like semi-fascism, the way in which it deals.
  3. "Bien entra en campaña tildando de semifascismo la ideología de Trump y sus aliados" [Well enters the campaign branding the ideology of Trump and his allies as semi-fascism] (in Spanish). August 26, 2022.
  4. "Elecciones en Estados Unidos: Biden proclama que el "semifascismo" de Trump está "condenado a muerte"" [Elections in the United States: Biden proclaims that Trump's "semi-fascism" is "condemned to death"]. www.ambito.com (in Spanish). Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  5. Cruañes, José Reig (November 28, 2011). Identificación y alienación: La cultura política y el tardofranquismo [Identification and alienation: Political culture and late Francoism] (in Spanish). Universitat de València. ISBN   978-84-370-8741-2 via Google Books.
  6. Recio, Glicerio Sánchez (2015). "En torno a la dictadura franquista". Hispania Nova: Revista de historia contemporánea (Extra 1): 243–256. ISSN   1138-7319.
  7. "Dictadura con periodo semifacista" [Dictatorship with semi-fascist period] (in Spanish). January 11, 2012.
  8. Ignacio., Mora y Araujo, Manuel. Llorente (1980). El Voto peronista. Editorial Sudamericana. OCLC   38783268.
  9. Markov, Georgi. Intento, violencia y política en Bulgaria 1878 – 1947, Sofía 203, p. 221; Grancharov, Stoicho y Elena Statelova. Historia de Bulgaria en tres volúmenes, vol. III Historia de Nueva Bulgaria, Sofía 1999, p. 406