fascism

en-noun

fascism (usually uncountable, plural fascisms)

Axis Powers
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Fascist Italy
World War II
fasci di combattimento
fascist (pejorative)

From Italian fascismo, from fascio (“fasces, bundle, group”) + -ismo (“-ism”) with direct reference to Benito Mussolini's fasci di combattimento ("fight clubs"), from Latin fasces, bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of the ancient Roman Republic as representative of their power of life and death. Originally with exclusive reference to Fascist Italy which used the fasces as an emblem, later broadened to describe all of the Axis Powers of World War II, and subsequently used as a general term of opprobrium in English and international political discourse.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-
Latin fascis
Italian fascio
Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
Latin -ismus
Italian -ismo
Italian fascismolbor.
English fascism

etymon

Today "Fascism" like Russian "Bolshevism" does not know what freedom means and cares less about the principles of liberty and the rights of man. It knows only one law and that is the will of Mussolini and his band of "Black Shirts."

1922 December 30, The American Photo-engraver, volume 15, page 324:

Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes... Ownership has never been abolished, there are still capitalists and workers, and—this is the important point, and the real reason why rich men all over the world tend to sympathize with Fascism—generally speaking the same people are capitalists and the same people workers as before the Nazi revolution. But at the same time the State, which is simply the Nazi Party, is in control of everything... The mere efficiency of such a system, the elimination of waste and obstruction, is obvious. In seven years it has built up the most powerful war machine the world has ever seen.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II:

Despite the three decades that have passed since the end of the second world war, fascism remains a subject of much heated argument. […] It also continues to be a subject of controversy, partly because it collides with so many preconceived ideological notions, partly because generalizations are made difficult by the fact that there was not one fascism but several fascisms.

1978, Walter Laqueur, Fascism: A Reader's Guide: Analyses, Interpretations, Bibliography:

Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. Take away imperialism from fascism and you still have Franco and Salazar. Take away colonialism and you still have the Balkan fascism of the Ustashes.

1995 June 22, Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”, in The New York Review of Books, archived from the original on 2017-01-31:

Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition.


fascist

en-adj

fascist (comparative more fascist, superlative most fascist)

more fascist (comparative)
most fascist (superlative)

1921, from Italian fascista, from fascio (“bundle, bunch”), in use metonymically for "group of men organized for political purposes" since 1895. Ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death.

Under demagogues such as Donald Trump in the U.S., Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Recep Erdoğan in Turkey, Narendra Modi in India and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, a moral abyss has emerged in which state violence, widespread repression and a surge of lawlessness against those considered disposable have become the hallmark of an updated fascist politics.

2020 March 2, Henry A. Giroux, “Auschwitz Survivors Don’t Want Their Past to Be Their Grandchildren’s Future”, in Truthout:


fascist

Mussolini was a fascist well known for his repression of criticism and totalitarian government.

Fascist? I'm not fascist. You're the fascist!

[I]f I can shoot rabbits / Then I can shoot fascists.

1998, “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”, in This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, performed by Manic Street Preachers:

Thursday's long-awaited relocation fulfils a key pledge of the socialist government, which said Spain should not continue to glorify a fascist who ruled the country for nearly four decades.

2019 October 24, “Franco exhumation: Spanish dictator's remains moved”, in BBC News:

scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist


SA

Initialism of North Sulawesi, a province of Indonesia.


blackshirt

From black + shirt, calque of Italian camicia nera.

Blackshirt

uniformed member of the Italian Fascist Party

(historical, chiefly in the plural) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party.

alkandora beltz

uniformed Italian fascist, member of a paramilitary wing of the party


Brownshirt

Calque of German Braunhemd, the nickname for a member of the Sturmabteilung, in reference to their brown uniforms. Equivalent to brown + shirt.

A heavy arched door was pouring a raucous and lurching party of Brownshirts on to the trampled snow. […] Half-way up the vaulted stairs a groaning Brownshirt, propped against the wall on a swastika'd arm, was unloosing, in a staunchless gush down the steps, the intake of hours.

1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, “The Munich Hofbräuhaus”, in A Time of Gifts:

(historical) A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung.


Blueshirt

(Ireland, historical, 1930s) A member of an Irish fascist organization led by Eoin O'Duffy.

(Ireland, derogatory) Any person accused of supporting right-wing Irish nationalism or fascism.

(Ireland, derogatory) A member of Ireland's Fine Gael political party, which O'Duffy's followers joined after their own organization was dissolved.


duce

Borrowed from Italian duce. Doublet of duke.

(fascism) an authoritarian leader, especially Benito Mussolini


übermensch

Untermensch

antonym(s) of “figure in Nietzschean philosophy”

Unadapted borrowing from German Übermensch.

ubor

(Nazism and white supremacy) A member of the proposed Aryan super race.


Aryan

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

From Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble; noble one”) + -n. The Sanskrit word is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áryas (the original Indo-Iranian autonym). Borrowed into English in the 19th century, at first as a term for the Indo-Iranian languages, and later partly extended to the Indo-European languages and peoples following a theory by Friedrich Schlegel that connected the Indo-Iranian words arya/ā́rya with German Ehre (“honor”) and some older Germanic names, thus assuming that it was the original Indo-European autonym meaning "the honorable people". The original meaning of the Indo-Iranian autonym and its possible Indo-European origin/cognates are disputed (see the Wikipedia article for further details).
The same Proto-Indo-Iranian root is the ultimate source of the country name Iran.

der

This short sketch of the changes that take place among those races that are only the depositories of a culture also furnishes a picture of the development and the activity and the disappearance of those who are the true founders of culture on this earth, namely the Aryans themselves.

1925–26, Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, translation from German to English by James Murphy, 1939

(theosophy, Germanic mysticism, Nazism) A member of a race defined variously as comprising people of Germanic descent, in the narrowest sense, or all non-Jewish Caucasians, in the broadest sense

One transmission advantage may have been that espousing Aryan-supremacist and overtly Nazi ideology could have been a roundabout way of announcing, […]

2001, Robert J. Sternberg, James C. Kaufman, The Evolution of Intelligence, page 300:

The point is not that southern Republicans are edging toward Aryan-supremacist views but that the rhetoric of their campaigns and some of their political […]

2002, David R. Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History, page 263:

(Nazism or white supremacy, informal) A person of Caucasian (white / Northern European) ethnicity; a white non-Jew.


neo-Nazi

Originally from postwar (1952) French néonazi, equivalent to neo- + Nazi, used to describe any number of movements, which saw themselves as believers of Nazi ideology or whose ideology had similar attributes. The term spread throughout the Western world acquiring a broader usage.


glow

en-verb

glow (third-person singular simple present glows, present participle glowing, simple past glowed or (dialectal) glew, past participle glowed or (dialectal) glown)

glows (present singular third-person)
glowing (participle present)
glowed (past)
glew (dialectal past)
glowed (participle past)
glown (dialectal participle past)

From Middle English glowen, from Old English glōwan, from Proto-Germanic *glōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje, West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish and Norwegian glo, Icelandic glóa, Finnish loistaa. See also glass.

(Internet slang, alt-right) to expose someone to the authorities.

(Internet slang, alt-right) to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.


Islamonazism

1989 December 28, “Bumiputra and Islamonazism”, in talk.politics.mideast (Usenet):

From the river to the sea, the whole land will one day be free — free of all the terrorist factions, and free for people of every religious faith to live without fear of Islamonazism, in all its perverse variations.

2002 December 5, Dave Kopel, “A Rich Tradition”, in The National Review:

2010 October 6, “Islamonazism and its historic, systematic and continue persecution of Christians ("Christains" to some)”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet):

(chiefly US, derogatory, offensive) Islamist Nazism, Nazi Islamism: a real or imagined conflation of Nazism and Islamism.


blitzkrieg

blitzkrieg Tanks (canonical)
motor vehicles (canonical)
blitzkriegs (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).

ubor

I rode a tank, held a general's rank / When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank

1968, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger (lyrics and music), “Sympathy for the Devil”, in Beggars Banquet, performed by Rolling Stones:

A fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support.


euthanasia

en-noun

euthanasia (usually uncountable, plural euthanasias)

→ Japanese: ユーサネイジア (yūsaneijia)

/juːθəˈneɪʒə/

First attested in 1606, from Ancient Greek εὐθανασία (euthanasía), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + θάνατος (thánatos, “death”)

vdekje e lehtë

practice of killing a human being or animal

Nevertheless, as Henry Friedlander pointed out years ago, it was not Jews but mentally and physically disabled people who became targets of the ﬁrst large-scale, systematic killings in Nazi Germany, under the euphemistically labelled “Euthanasia Program.”

2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Introduction”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 3:

(euphemistic, especially Nazism) The practice of killing a human being who is considered a liability to society, especially a disabled person.


putsch

Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.

2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98.
"They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch"."

A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.

اِنْقِلَاب

a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government


swastika

en-noun

swastika (countable and uncountable, plural swastikas)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक (svastika), from सु- (su-, “good, well”) + अस्ति (asti), a verbal abstract of the root of the verb "to be", स्वस्ति (svasti) thus meaning "well-being" — and the diminutive suffix क (ka); hence "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm". First attestation in English in 1871, a Sanskritism that replaced the Grecian term gammadion. From 1932 onwards it often referred specifically to the version used by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (also called the "hooked cross", or German Hakenkreuz).

sauwastika

left-facing; symbolizing the night or the tantric aspects of Kali

This was signed by Dana Da, who added pentacles and pentagrams, and a crux ansata, and half-a-dozen swastikas, and a Triple Tau to his name, just to show that he was all he laid claim to be.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Sending of Dana Da”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, pages 423–4:

It is clear from archaeological finds that they enjoyed wearing Christian crosses, though they might enliven these with such symbols as the Indian swastika which Buddhists had brought them.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 270:

(countable) A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, but now mainly seen and used in the West (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of Nazism and fascism.

swastika

a cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle

"Is that what you think of me? I believe in the Grail, not the Swastika!"

1989, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, spoken by Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody):

“I can’t imagine anyone believes in Communist culprits instead of a contract job commissioned on behalf of the swastika.”

2011, Rudolph Herzog, translated by Jefferson Chase, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany, Brooklyn: Melville House, →ISBN, page 36:

(fascism, history, metonymically, uncountable) Nazi rule.

hakenkreuz

chiefly in India referring to the Nazi swastika


Il Duce

Borrowed from Italian il Duce (literally “the Leader”), from duce (“commander, leader”), from Latin dux, accusative ducem (“leader”), from the nomen agentis form of Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to lead”). Doublet of duke.

bor

(historical) The title which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini assumed during his rule (1922—1945).


Führer

Borrowed from German Führer, modelled after Italian Duce.

(historical, Nazism, definite) Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany.


Hitler

The surname Hitler is a variation of Hiedler, a surname applied to those who resided near a Hiedl (“subterranean river”) (Bavarian dialect). Earlier theories derived the surname from Hüttler (also spelled Huettler), either meaning "one who lives in a hut", from Hütte (“hut”), or from hüten (“guard, look after”).

The British ruling class are fighting against Hitler, whom they have always regarded and whom some of them still regard as their protector against Bolshevism. That does not mean that they will deliberately sell out; but it does mean that at every decisive moment they are likely to falter, pull their punches, do the wrong thing. Until the Churchill Government called some sort of halt to the process, they have done the wrong thing with an unerring instinct ever since 1931.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II:

What is one curious about when he asks, What is evil? The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil.

1964, David Hugh Freeman, A Philosophical Study of Religion, page 241:

...the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler has to be different after Hitler’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on Hitler’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; it is not manifest that there must have been a real change of mind on God's side. And Aquinas can say this...

1977, Peter Thomas Geach, Providence and Evil, page 41:

Mueller is even less convincing in his suggestion that World War II might never have happened if Hitler had never been born.

1994, Karen A. Rasler, William R. Thompson, The great powers and global struggle, 1490-1990:

People do evil things (Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein).

2007, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion:

Ellipsis of Adolf Hitler; Führer of the Nazi Party and chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945; particularly as the embodiment of Nazism.


Third Reich

Partial calque of German Drittes Reich (literally “third empire, third realm”). The first “Reich” in this reckoning is the Holy Roman Empire and the second is the German Empire. The Weimar Republic, although officially called Deutsches Reich as well, was rejected by the National Socialists and therefore not counted in.

partial calque

German Empire
Holy Roman Empire
Weimar Republic

Тре́тий рейх m (Trétij rejx) (various capitalisation is used)


Holocaust

en-proper noun

the Holocaust (usually uncountable, plural Holocausts)

the Holocaust (canonical)
Holocausts (plural)

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(historical, strictly) The systematic mass murder (genocide) of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.

Sjoa

the mass murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany

Holocaust

the mass murder of 11–14 million people by Nazi Germany


Nazi

1930, from German Nazi, a clipping of Nationalsozialist (“National Socialist”) (1924), earlier attestation (1903) as shortening of national-sozial), since in German the nati- in national /ˌnatsi̯oˈnaːl/ is approximately pronounced Nazi [ˈnäːtsi]; compare the parallel pejorative terms Sozi (“socialist, social democrat”), Kozi (“commie, commo, communist”).
A homonymic term Nazi was in use before the rise of the NSDAP in Bavaria as a pet name for Ignaz and (by extension from that) a derogatory word for a backwards peasant, which may have influenced the use of that abbreviation by the Nazis' opponents and its avoidance by the Nazis themselves.

clipping

(historical) A member of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP).


Q

In this fantasy world, all of the far right’s wildest dreams come true: Q promises that Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Abedin, and even McCain are all either arrested and wearing secret police-issued ankle monitors, or just about to be indicted; that the Steele dossier is a total fabrication personally paid for by Clinton and Obama; and that the Las Vegas massacre was most definitely an inside job connected to the Saudi-Clinton cabal.

2017 December 19, Paris Martineau, “The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse”, in New York, archived from the original on 2018-12-26:

In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

At the end of her report, Coaston concluded, “Most people have never heard of QAnon, or Q — and that includes most of Donald Trump’s supporters.” That’s still the case, but the fact that this book is at the top of some of Amazon’s most prominent recommendation lists means that a far larger share of the population will — at a minimum — stumble across these ideas.

2019 March 6, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How a conspiracy theory about Democrats drinking children’s blood topped Amazon’s best-sellers list”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2019-03-07:

(US politics) Abbreviation of QAnon (“anonymous poster on anonymous online message boards who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory”).


master race

1941 March 22, Konrad Heiden, “Europe Under the “Master Race“”, in The Nation, page 334:

(especially Nazism) A race of people who are superior to others.


herrenvolk

en-noun

herrenvolk (plural herrenvolks or herrenvolker)

herrenvolks (plural)
herrenvolker (plural)

/ˈhɛɹənfəʊk/

From German Herrenvolk, from Herr (“lord, master, gentleman”) + -en- + Volk (“folk, people”).

af

In their position halfway between the blacks and the white Herrenvolk, they are bound to be unstable, they are petty bourgeois to the core, all of them.

1995 [1954], Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, page 59:

The political system that was emerging has been aptly described as a 'Herrenvolk democracy', a formally democratic political system in which voting and office holding is limited to members of a dominant ethno-racial group.

2003, George M. Fredrickson, The Historical Construction of Race and Citizenship in the United States^(https://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/8A0AE7EACD11F278C1256DD6004860EA/$file/Fredrick.pdf), page 14:

A master race, especially with reference to Nazi ideology.


feminazi

en-adj

feminazi (comparative more feminazi, superlative most feminazi)

more feminazi (comparative)
most feminazi (superlative)

Reason (magazine)
Rush Limbaugh
Thomas Hazlett
feminazi

Blend of feminist + Nazi, popularized in 1992 by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).

(derogatory, potentially offensive) Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views, or a female chauvinist.

ֆեմինացիստ

relating to a radical or militant feminist


SS

Initialism of Schutzstaffel.; from German SS


Wehrmacht

Unadapted borrowing from German Wehrmacht.

unadapted borrowing

In the end the Allies battered the Wehrmacht back to the Reich and ended whatever chance the Germans had of escaping their fate.

1996, Robert Doughty, World War II: Total Warfare Around the Globe, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 106:

(historical, Nazism) The German armed forces from 1935 to 1945.


Rassenschande

Unadapted borrowing from German Rassenschande (literally “race shame”).

ubor

In fact, some historians’ mistaken belief about the unwavering German implementation of both Rassenschande and their genocidal policy has caused them to turn a blind eye to numerous sources, German and Jewish, that testify to the realities of Jewish women’s experiences during the war.

2010, Helene J. Sinnreich, “The Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust”, in Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, Hanover and London: University Press of New England, page 116:

(Nazism) miscegenation: sexual relations between people of “Aryan” race and “inferior” races, particularly Jews.


kapo

Borrowed from German Kapo, see there for further etymology. Doublet of corporal and capo.

(historical) A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.

kapo

prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, supervising other prisoners


denazification

en-noun

denazification (countable and uncountable, plural denazifications)

The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II.


fash

en-verb

fash (third-person singular simple present fashes, present participle fashing or fashin, simple past and past participle fashed)

fashes (present singular third-person)
fashing (participle present)
fashin (participle present)
fashed (participle past)
fashed (past)

From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).

“They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as I gave his Royal Highness in this very house; bating the lemon juice, for at that time we were glad to get the meat and never fashed for kitchen. Indeed, there were mair dragoons than lemons in my country in the year forty-six.”

1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:

(intransitive, Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To trouble oneself; to take pains.


fash

The Butchers Here is an old Munich policeman — Wilhelm Frick with eyes like those of a fash.

1945, Information Bulletin, volume 5, numbers 66-131:

It is not they, with their comfortable middle class speaking-tour and festival-circuit lives, who will put on the black and go punch a Nazi or bash a fash. No. It will be the vulnerable, overwhelmingly queer, poor youth [...]

2017, Katessa Harkey, The Peace of the Hall: Rules of Engagement for the New Witch Wars, →ISBN, page 90:

(slang, derogatory, especially UK) A fascist, a member of the far-right.


Nazism

The ideology of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP), being a form of fascism characterised by Adolf Hitler's cult of personality, hate propaganda, white supremacy, extreme bigotry (especially antisemitism and racism), eugenics, mass violence, genocide, ethnonationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum) and state capitalism.

nazizëm

the ideology of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party


Shoah

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From Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”).

I never knew him, or any of my other relatives who died in the Shoah. But I would gladly dump every ounce of that gold into the ocean, just to give them a decent burial.

(history) The systematic mass murder of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.


Schutzstaffel

Unadapted borrowing from German Schutzstaffel.

ubor

(historical) The internal security force of Nazi Germany; the SS.

Mühafizə dəstəsi

the internal security force of Nazi Germany


Nuremberg

/ˈnjʊəɹəmbəɡ/

From German Nürnberg, from Medieval Latin Norinberga. The second element is from Berg, origins of the first element unclear.

The trial of Nazi criminals that took place there, after World War II.


Italianization

/ɪˌtæljənəˈzeɪʃən/

(linguistics) The process of adapting lexical elements from a foreign language to the Italian linguistic system.


Italianization

/ɪˌtæljənəˈzeɪʃən/

(historical) The forced cultural and ethnic assimilation of minorities in the Kingdom of Italy, with particular reference to the Fascist government (1922–1943).

італьяніза́цыя

process of forced assimilation into the Italian culture


Waffen-SS

Borrowed from German Waffen-SS, from Waffe (“weapon”) + SS.


gauleiter

Borrowed from German Gauleiter, from Gau (“administrative division”) + Leiter (“leader”).

(historical) An official in charge of a district of Nazi Germany.

гаўля́йтар

an official in charge of a district of Nazi Germany


stormtrooper

A calque of German Sturmtruppen, from Sturm (“storm”) + Truppen (“troops”), equivalent to storm + trooper.

A member of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi street militia.


National Socialist

en-noun

National Socialist (plural National Socialists)

Calque of German Nationalsozialist (noun) and nationalsozialistisch (adjective), respectively.

An adherent of National Socialism; a Nazi.


Hitlerish

en-adj

Hitlerish (comparative more Hitlerish, superlative most Hitlerish)

more Hitlerish (comparative)
most Hitlerish (superlative)


Islamofascism

It braces the talk not only of pundits, but of all the major Republican candidates - from the tough guy at one end, Rudy Giuliani, who lambastes Democrats for not using the word or its equivalent, to the "nice" candidate at the other end, Mike Huckabee, who defines Islamofascism as "the greatest threat this country [has] ever faced."

2008 January 21, James Carroll, “Carroll: Islamofascism's ill political wind”, in The New York Times:

(chiefly US, derogatory, offensive, politics) Socially repressive or nationalistic Islamic fundamentalism.


Hitlerism

From Hitler + -ism, named after German politician Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).

The political philosophy and practices of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.


Gleichschaltung

en-noun

Gleichschaltung (countable and uncountable, plural Gleichschaltungs)

Unadapted borrowing from German Gleichschaltung (“synchronisation”).

ubor

Far less identified with the party than the old Freikorps (anticommunist vigilante groups active just after World War I) mercenaries, the new element saw in the SS the true elite organization of the Nazi regime, and did not hesitate to attempt Gleichschaltungs within the Gleichschaltung, that is, to have the SS take over already Nazified organizations.

1973, Dietrich Orlow, The History of the Nazi Party: 1933–1945, volume 2, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 181:

Consequently, Croatia’s new leaders have lost little time in purging these last outposts of the old regime. In the name of democracy and human rights, all the media will henceforth be sympathetic to the new government, a process of Gleichschaltung that is being cheered on by the West.

2000 April 15, John Laughland, “Full circle for communism: Under EU plan, Croatia is starting to resemble old communist Yugoslavia”, in The Gazette, Montreal, page B5:

So what we have today is a university whose uniqueness is to be attacked and destroyed so that it falls in line where a gleichschaltung is achieved, a non dissenting institution with dead pan faces, with caste identities or communal hatred pervasive, unquestioning students roaming around writing meaningless objective type exams for different testing services.

2017 February 10, Rakesh Batabyal, “Casteism and communalism are delegitimising the institutions that have built JNU”, in Hindustan Times:

The forced standardization of political and social institutions under an authoritarian regime, originally with reference to Nazi Germany.


far-right

en-adj

far-right (comparative more far-right, superlative most far-right)

more far-right (comparative)
most far-right (superlative)

(politics) Of or pertaining to the far right.


far right

/ˌfɑː ˈɹʌɪt/

/ˌfɑɹ ˈɹaɪt/

From far + right, after French extrême droite.

(politics) The most right-wing or conservative part of a political faction or grouping.


Gestapo

/ɡɛˈstɑːpəʊ/

/ɡəˈʃtɑːpəʊ/

Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).

Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 227:

(historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.


Hitlerian

Hitlerian (comparative more Hitlerian, superlative most Hitlerian)

more Hitlerian (comparative)
most Hitlerian (superlative)

of Hitlerian proportions

[He had] an almost Hitlerian cowlick on his pale brow.

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 190:

Cambodia was subjected to a genocide of Hitlerian proportions.

1987 May, “Playboy Interview: Prince Norodom Sihanouk”, in Playboy, volume 34, number 5, Chicago, Illinois: Hugh M. Hefner, →ISSN, page 61, column 3:

Unable to contain his excitement, Foyʼs voice rose two octaves and took on a Hitlerian fervor.

2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 217:

War is war — but we need to understand how wrong it is to see the temporary triumph of fascist villainy as the destruction, once and for all, of the German people and the inauguration of an eternal kingdom of Hitlerian darkness.

2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 220:

Hitlerian occupation authorities had been preparing action against Polish underground very carefully.

2024 December 27 (last accessed), Ewelina Pawelic, “Nazi’s reprisals on civilians: Executions in Karolin and Kazanów on 18th March 1942”, in Regional Museum in Zwolen:

Of, relating to, or resembling Hitler (the German chancellor) or his actions.


Hitlerian

Since a German Communist state existed, a state peaceful and democratic by definition, it became more difficult to speak of crimes committed by Germans in general. Poles were confronted with a kind of "Marxization" of the German problem that had to be resolved in terms of classes: in the east were the good Germans because they were progressive; in the west, the bad Germsans, reactionaries, heirs of Nazism, even more-or-less camouflaged Hitlerians.

2004, Henry Rousso, Richard Joseph Golsan, Stalinism and Nazism: history and memory compared, page 247:


globalist

Coordinate term: continentalist

(historiography) One who believes that Adolf Hitler intended to extend the Third Reich beyond the continent of Europe.


groomer

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia declared that "communist groomers" wanted to "allow a for-profit medical industry to chop off these confused children's genitals."

2022 December 10, Maggie Astor, “Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

"Sooo...the groomers are calling anti-groomers 'dragphobes' now... got it," conservative comedian Tim Young posted.

2022 December 16, Andrew Mark Miller, “LGBT group warns 'dragphobia' is on the rise, conservatives blast post on Twitter”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 2022-12-22:

In December, far right groups including the Patriot Front and Proud Boys contributed to the cancellation of an Ohio drag storytime event. Many demonstrators showed up armed, while others held up signs with slogans like: "Groomers not welcome" and "Groomers are Child Abusers."

2022 December 21, Andrew Davis, “Drag queens take on Tennessee bill seeking to restrict their performances”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

"It seems to be essentially a sort of pedophilic, predatory farm system that the groomers have set up," Walsh said.

2022 December 21, Anya Zoledziowski, “How 2022 Became the Year Trans Hate Went Mainstream”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2022-12-27:

After his takeover, use of the N-word increased by 202 percent; the use of homophobic, misogynist, and transphobic slurs went up at double-digit rates; the use of the slur groomer has increased exponentially.

[2022 December 23, Annie Lowrey, “Why Is Elon Musk Lighting Billions of Dollars on Fire?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

By the way, the buried lede of this is that 60 percent of this school board is LGBT, is gay. The question is, do Christians run for school boards as much as the LGBT community does? No. As I said yesterday, which is groomers can't reproduce, so instead they recruit. So, they go serve on school boards. And they go do drag queens. And they do all this other sort of disgusting nauseating stuff.

2023 March 3, Charlie Kirk, quotee, “Charlie Kirk: "Groomers can't reproduce, so instead they recruit. They go serve on school boards."”, in Media Matters, archived from the original on 2023-03-04:

Attacks against these librarians and administrative employees started to multiply over a year ago when a new Facebook group called Two Moms and Some Books was born. “I think the lowest point, at least for me, is when they started calling us groomers,” said a current librarian who we will call Avery. “That’s not really a word you throw around to people, even people you don’t like.”

2024 May 8, Faith Bugenhagen, “Librarians Under Siege in Montgomery County?”, in Houston Press:

(alt-right, derogatory, offensive, anti-LGBTQ slur) An individual, particularly an LGBT person or drag queen, framed as a predator or threat to children; in particular, someone who makes children aware of LGBT people or drag, from the perspective of those who consider this to be sexual.


Sturmabteilung

A paramilitary division under the German Nazi Party, operating from 1921 until being disbanded in 1934.


Gilead

Another wrote: "Just to clarify women who chose not to take their husband's surname or have children with a partner they are not married to will be subject to increased border measures. This is what freedom looks like under a Tory government? Straight out of Gilead."

2018 August 3, Nicola Oakley, Emma Gill, “Parents with different surnames to their kids face questioning at UK airports on family holidays”, in Mirror (UK):

On Tuesday, the ACLU filed an official complaint with Meijer Pharmacy’s CEO for an incident that’s straight out of Gilead.

2018 October 18, Elura Nanos, “‘Good Catholic’ Pharmacist Doesn’t Know Difference Between Miscarriage and Abortion, But He’ll Learn in Court”, in Law & Crime:

"But people often don't understand these things. The same thing would apply, I think, when it comes to feminism, for example: people saying things about women or having views that they shouldn't have. It doesn't mean they're misogynist or straight out of Gilead."

2019 December 22, Barry Egan, quoting Leo Varadkar, “'He makes me laugh. He could get a job writing Christmas cracker jokes'”, in Independent:

(derogatory) An illiberal and oppressive place, especially on matters related to women's rights, reproduction, or sex (from the theocratic dystopia in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale).


Nazi Germany

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Nazi Germany.wav

(historical) Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party (from 1933 to 1945).


Islamofascist

Islamofascist (comparative more Islamofascist, superlative most Islamofascist)

more Islamofascist (comparative)
most Islamofascist (superlative)

(chiefly US, derogatory, offensive) Of or pertaining to Islamofascism


Anschluss

From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).

‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’

1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 44:

Riane Eisler was born in Vienna in 1931. After the German Anschluss of Austria she fled with her family, first to Cuba and then to the U.S.

1988 December 11, John Kyper, “The 'Truth' Of Male-Dominated Social Science”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:

Anton Kuh […] was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss.

(historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.

آنْشْلُوس

the annexation of Austria into Germany in 1938 or an analogy


Untermensch

Unadapted borrowing from German Untermensch.

ubor

His orders are clear and concise – the Scots are viewed as untermenschen and are to be treated accordingly.

2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 19:

(derogatory, especially Nazism) An inferior person; a subhuman, especially in Nazi racial hierarchy.


crypto-fascist

The American people will no longer retreat from “crypto-fascists” attacking their civil liberties, but will stand and fight for basic democracy, Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat, of Florida, declared yesterday at the closing session of the conference on cultural freedom and civil liberties at the Hotel Commodore.

1947 October 27, Claude Pepper, quotee, “Pepper Asks Fight to Save Liberties”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A person whose fascist views or motives are kept private or secret.

cryptofasciste

a person who holds fascist views secretely


crypto-fascism

(derogatory) The holding of fascist views in private or secret.


anti-fascism

en-noun

anti-fascism (usually uncountable, plural anti-fascisms)

Art and anti-fascism are synonymous.

1937, John Langdon-Davies, Authors take Sides on the Spanish War:

The opposition to fascist ideologies, organizations, governments and people.


trad

trad (countable and uncountable, plural trads)

Traditional climbing
traditional climbing


troon

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English transgenderblend.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Germanic *gumô
Proto-West Germanic *gumō
Old English guma
Middle English gone?
English gooney
English goonblend.
English troon
Blend of transgender + goon (“member of Something Awful”). Coined in the comedy website and internet forum Something Awful in the late 2000s.

etymon

transgender>having a gender different from one's assigned sex

blend

goon<t:member of Something Awful><id:member of Something Awful>

Coordinate term: pooner

Good Woke Boys pretending like they didn't obsessively post "troons are mentally ill" for 5 years is my favorite* part of twitter

2016 September 19, @uchimatador, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

When the troons speak about ‘gender neutral spaces’ ALWAYS maintain they are promoting unisex spaces.

2020 August 29, @fifyfomum, Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-08-29:

how do I wear skirts without coming off like a troon twitter no-fashion-sense transbian

2021 October 26, @coolestrogen, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

(anti-LGBTQ slur, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) A transgender person; most commonly, a trans woman.


en:12th man (football)
en:Aryan Brotherhood

(neo-Nazism) Alphanumeric code for "AB", referring to the Aryan Brotherhood.


Sieg Heil

en-verb

Sieg Heil (third-person singular simple present Sieg Heils, present participle Sieg Heiling, simple past and past participle Sieg Heiled)

Sieg Heils (present singular third-person)
Sieg Heiling (participle present)
Sieg Heiled (participle past)
Sieg Heiled (past)

Unadapted borrowing from German Sieg Heil, from Sieg (“victory”) + Heil, a common chant at political rallies in Nazi Germany, translating as "victory brings salvation" or alternatively as "salvation [to] victory" on the model of Heil Hitler.

ubor

(intransitive) To perform a Nazi salute while chanting Sieg Heil.


Fourth Reich

الرَّايْخ الرَابِع

Hypothetical resurrection of the Third Reich

Are you listening, sir? Or did your mind drift / to the next country in your axis, / to all the cool bomb drops you get to call: / delivery fresh from the Fourth Reich to y’all?

2005, “Special Delivery”, in MC Frontalot (music), Nerdcore Rising:

From their hideaways in South America, it would have been easy for the Nazis to slink away down to New Swabia and establish the Fourth Reich.

2009, Monte Cook, “Everything's Better with Nazis”, in The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Hypothetical resurrection of Nazi Germany (Third Reich).

A government or country seen as similarly authoritarian.

"[…] This ‘Fourth Reich’ section of the City has no decrease in the number of Central European refugees."

1937, Report of the New York Public Library for 1937, page 92:

Washington Heights, Manhattan
w:Washington Heights, Manhattan

(historical) Nickname for Washington Heights, Manhattan, after the German immigrants there.


Auschwitz

From German Auschwitz, the German name for the town known in Polish as Oświęcim, which the concentration camp was near.

A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.


Godwin's law

Named after American attorney and author Mike Godwin (1956–).

named-after

The power to be a being of pure thought, the unlimited, unconstrained world of imagination, and we build a world of animated gifs, stupid sight gags, lame van-art avatars, stupid “playful” environments, and brain-dead flame wars augmented by animated emoticons that allowed participants to express their hackneyed ad hominems, concern-trollery, and Godwin's law violations through the media of cartoon animals and oversized genitals.

2012, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, The Rapture of the Nerds, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 296:

His article urges people not to be “afraid” of being charged with confirming Godwin's law. But who would be afraid of that charge when you believe that the Nazi analogy is apt?

2018, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Why We Argue, Routledge, →ISBN:

(Internet, usually humorous) The adage that any Usenet discussion will eventually mention the Nazis or Adolf Hitler.

(usually humorous) An adage that states that the first person in an argument (usually in an online comment thread or forum) to mention the Nazis or Adolf Hitler has lost.


neofascism

en-noun

neofascism (usually uncountable, plural neofascisms)

Six years after destruction of the Axis powers and their political philosophy, neo-fascism remains an inchoate and weak force in Europe. Nevertheless, such types of movements registered definite gains last spring, above all in Germany and Italy, the countries that produced this form of nationalist dictatorship.

1951 July 16, C. L. Sulzberger, “Neo-Fascism Gains Sharply, Showing Animosity for U.S.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Neofascism is unlike its 1930s predecessor, in that today a global elite of the absurdly wealthy and influential is steering an ideology that wants a shrinking government, falling taxes on high incomes, and authoritarian control over recalcitrants, nonconformists, collective bodies and "losers" in the market society, including the disabled and young unemployed.

2011 June 1, Guy Standing, “Who will be a voice for the emerging precariat?”, in The Guardian:

A right-wing political movement inspired by fascism, especially by that of fascist Italy.


neofascist

By this summer, everything — her youthful admiration for Benito Mussolini, her party’s links to neofascists, her often extreme rhetoric — had been forgiven.

2023 July 27, David Broder, “What’s Happening in Italy Is Scary, and It’s Spreading”, in The New York Times:


ultranationalism

ultranationalism (countable and uncountable, plural ultranationalisms)

Extreme nationalism, the belief in the superiority of one's nation and of the paramount importance of advancing it.


National Socialism

The ideology of the Nazi Party, including an authoritarian government, ethnic nationalism (including but not limited to Pan-Germanism) and adequate territory (Lebensraum), and economic cooperation between the state and capital.


folkish

en-adj

folkish (comparative more folkish, superlative most folkish)

more folkish (comparative)
most folkish (superlative)

universalist

chiefly US; related to their opponents, neopagan groups that support marginalized people

From folk + -ish. (Compare Old English folcisc, and German völkisch.)

neo-völkisch

related to far-right or racist neopagan groups

(religion, Germanic paganism, especially in white supremacy and Nazism) Practicing far-right and racist forms of Heathenry that are hostile towards minorities, Christians, and Jewish people; and also supporting Nazi influences.


Lebensraum

Unadapted borrowing from German Lebensraum (literally “living room”).

ubor

The title of this article evokes memories of the beginning of World War II and reveals one method dictators use to increase their power. In China’s case, Xi Jinping’s Anschluss of Hong Kong in June 2020 fits nicely with the way Hitler began his initial European expansion strategy, called Lebensraum (living space). In Zweites Buch, Hitler said that to dominate the world, Germany must expand its borders and areas it controls. The first way to start achieving Lebensraum would be through Anschluss — the unification of Austria and Germany. Further, he envisioned an expansion that would include Poland, Czechoslovakia, the rest of Europe and Russia.

2021 March 15, Guermantes Lailari, “The Lebensraum Factor in Xi Jinping’s Strategy for Hong Kong and Taiwan”, in Jewish Policy Center, archived from the original on 2021-04-05:

(in German history from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Centuries) Territories considered appropriate for German habitation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race:

(in later usage, Nazism) a Großdeutschland obtained through Endoeuropean expansion, usually with a focus upon Drang nach Osten, and varying in its scope from the comparatively modest annexation of the Polish Border Strip to overlordship of the European continent by the conquest of Russian lands as far as the Urals.


Islamic fascism

In World War II we fought Nazism and Japanese imperialism. Today we are fighting against Islamic fascism.

2006 July 20, Rick Santorum, speech at the National Press Club

A putatively Islamic form of fascism or authoritarianism; a Muslim theocracy.


fascistically

en-adv

fascistically (comparative more fascistically, superlative most fascistically)

more fascistically (comparative)
most fascistically (superlative)


protofascist

Even Lemon, for all her protofascist beliefs, wins our sympathy.

1991 August 9, Jack Helbig, “Marie and Bruce”, in Chicago Reader:

When Newt Gingrich and his protofascist comrades took over Congress in 1994, they sneeringly boasted that they intended to take the federal government back to the 1920s.

2008 April 7, Adolph Reed Jr., The Nation, archived from the original on 2009-03-18:

(politics) Showing the beginnings of fascism.


protofascist

The Social Darwinists are sometimes considered protofascists.

(historical) One whose beliefs resembled fascism before the founding of fascism in 1919.

That congressman is a protofascist.

Along with stereotype-mongering phrases like “redneck America's life in the electronic theme park,” he occasionally reduces his countrymen to mindless proto-fascists.

1989 April 30, Martha Bayles, “Taking Sitcoms Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(derogatory) One whose opinions or policies show the beginnings of fascism.


Obergruppenführer

a Nazi party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the SA and until 1942 it was the highest rank in the SS


Kristallnacht

Unadapted borrowing from German Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”, literally “crystal night”).

ubor

The Kristallnacht was a monumental development in Nazi anti-Jewish policy for several reasons. It was the single instance of large-scale, public, and organized physical violence against Jews inside Germany before the Second World War.

2009, Alan E. Steinweis, Kristallnacht 1938, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant “progressive” radicalism unthinkable now?

2014 January 24, Tom Perkins, “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN:

Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump on Sunday, comparing the riot at the US Capitol which the president incited to Kristallnacht, the night in November 1938 when Nazi thugs attacked Jewish Germans and their property, a harbinger of horrors to come.

2021 January 10, Martin Pengelly, “Schwarzenegger rebukes Trump and compares Capitol riot to Kristallnacht”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(historical, Nazism) The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.


multiculti

From German Multikulti. By itself a clipping of multiculturalism.

Tired of the endless battle between liberals and identity politicians, Western civvies and multicultis?

1992, Lingua franca: the review of academic life: Volume 3:

She claimed the Labour Party had been "hijacked by Muslims and multicultis"[…]

2010, Sam Cherribi, In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed, page 167:

(informal, derogatory) One who pushes multicultural beliefs and values in a politically correct way.


fren

(alt-right, Internet slang) A fellow white nationalist or fascist, a comrade on the far right.


judenrein

Borrowed from German judenrein (“cleansed of Jews”, literally “Jew clean”).

bor

(Nazism, euphemistic) "Clean of Jews", i.e. having no Jewish inhabitants (e.g. because they have been deported or killed).

Judenrein

sometimes; following English capitalisation rules


Antifa

Borrowed from German Antifa, originally an abbreviation for Antifaschistische Aktion, a wing of the Communist Party of Germany founded in 1932.

Similarly, Antifa organized local defense units that fought off Nazi assaults and factory and land-estate committees that blocked further wage cuts and other infringements.

1985, Andreas Dorpalen, German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach, Wayne State University Press, page 385:

The active Communist participation in the leadership of the Antifa committees made them vulnerable to "red scare" propaganda, especially from the much more conservative city government.

1996, Rebecca L. Boehling, A Question of Priorities: Democratic Reforms and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany : Frankfurt, Munich, and Stuttgart Under U.S. Occupation, 1945-1949, Berghahn Books, page 102:

After an anti-fascist punched a right-wing journalist in Portland, militant anti-fascists and Antifa have been branded as 'violent gangs,' even 'terrorists.' Those definitions are completely wrong.

2019 July 3, Stanislav Vysotsky, “Antifa in America: Militant Anti-fascism Isn't Terrorism, It's Self-defense”, in Haaretz:

(politics) A decentralized, radical political movement that opposes fascism.


Naziland

The reason he was going to Switzerland was to write it out and mail it in a free country; he would never put anything on paper in Naziland.

1944, Upton Sinclair, “Dangerous Majesty”, in Presidential Agent (Lanny Budd), page 333:

(derogatory) Germany, especially Nazi Germany.


Hitler mustache

en-noun

Hitler mustache (plural Hitler mustaches)

Named after German dictator Adolf Hitler.

named-after

toothbrush mustache
toothbrush mustache#English


reductio ad Hitlerum

en-noun

reductio ad Hitlerum (plural reductio ad Hitlerums)

Coined by Leo Strauss in 1951, by analogy with reductio ad absurdum.

Just on Twitter alone, there were too many arguments, too many reductio ad Hitlerums for me to handle alone.

2018, Carl Miller, chapter 7, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:

An attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practiced by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.


cultural Marxism

Coined by Trent Schroyer's The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory (1973).

اَلْمَارْكْسِيَّة ثَقَافِيَّة

conspiracy theory that cultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Marxist ideas by the Frankfurt School

(Marxism, academia) A form of Marxism perceived as subsumed by capitalism and thus as unauthentic by its critics (usually other Marxists).


Slovak Republic

First Slovak Republic
First Slovak Republic

(historical, fascism) The First Slovak Republic from 14 March 1939 to 4 April 1945.


Aryanize

en-verb

Aryanize (third-person singular simple present Aryanizes, present participle Aryanizing, simple past and past participle Aryanized)

Aryanizes (present singular third-person)
Aryanizing (participle present)
Aryanized (participle past)
Aryanized (past)

(transitive, historical) To render Aryan; to be subjected to the cultural and linguistic influence of the Aryan peoples.

(transitive, Nazism) To remove all non-Aryan characteristics or individuals from a society.


Pétainism

After chief of state of Vichy France Philippe Pétain, + -ism.

Secondly, Pétainism was identified with common sense and realism. No argument against Pétain could start from a sound basis: it was made to look absurd, and people who objected to his leadership were 'flying in the face of fact'.

1985, Harry Roderick Kedward, Occupied France: collaboration and resistance, 1940-1944, Wiley-Blackwell, page 19:

In such ways the favoured status of Pétainism within Nazi-Occupied Europe limped on until the Allied invasions of 1944.

1985, Harry Roderick Kedward, Roger Austin, Vichy France and the Resistance: culture & ideology, Taylor & Francis, page 236:

Giraud's escape from the Koenigstein prison camp did not mark a break with Pétainism; on the contrary, it was helped by elements of the Vichy intelligence service.

2006, Richard Vinen, The unfree French: life under the occupation, Allen Lane, page 209:

The political philosophy associated with Philippe Pétain.


neo-Nazism

en-noun

neo-Nazism (usually uncountable, plural neo-Nazisms)

The ideology held by neo-Nazis; post-WWII Nazism.


Hitlerlike

en-adj

Hitlerlike (comparative more Hitlerlike, superlative most Hitlerlike)

more Hitlerlike (comparative)
most Hitlerlike (superlative)

It is not up to the United Nations to say just what the German schools of the future should teach, and we do not want to be guilty of a Hitlerlike orgy of book burning.

1971, Henry Agard Wallace, Christian Bases of World Order, page 14:

He's the master of adult corruptions—not all adult corruptions—but it's funny how Hitlerlike most people are.

Resembling Adolf Hitler (genocidal dictator of Germany) or his actions or policies.


Vril

Coined by British statesman and author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, later titled Vril, apparently as a clipping of virile.

coined

Coordinate term: Haunebu

This technology led to the amazing German flying saucers of the Haunebu and Vril classes built under SS auspices.

2003, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, NYU Press, page 295:

However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany.

2010, George Romero, The Rescue, Lotus Vision Publishing Company, page 165

Operation Highjump has turned out to be a hot topic for UFO conspiracy theorists over recent years, who claim it was a secret US military campaign to defeat and destroy supposed secret Nazi facilities in Antarctica and seize the German Vril flying discs, and the Thule mercury propelled spacecraft.

2012, Jack Follett, Special Report 2011: Hitler's Secret UFO Weapons, BoD – Books on Demand, page 38:

(ufology, attributive) A kind of flying saucer supposedly built by the Nazis.


Godwin's Law

Alternative letter-case form of Godwin's law.


Porajmos

Coined by a Kalderash Romani acquaintance of, and popularized by, Ian Hancock in 1990s. From Romani porajmos (“devouring”).

Coordinate term: Shoah

(historical) The planned and attempted genocide of the Romani people during the Second World War by Nazi Germany and its allies.


Ahnenerbe

Borrowed from German Ahnenerbe, from Ahnen, plural of Ahn (“forefather”), + Erbe (“heritage”).

There is evidence to suggest that the Ahnenerbe itself was formed as a private institution by several friends and admirers of Sven Hedin, including Wolfram Sievers (who would later find justice at the Nuremberg Trials) and Dr. Friedrich Hielscher who, according to the records of the Nuremberg Trial of November 1946, had been responsible for recruiting Sievers into the Ahnenerbe.

1995, Peter Levenda, Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult, published 2002, page 174:

Himmler's aspirations to influence in intellectual and cultural matters were realized in the Ahnenerbe (Research and Teaching Foundation, Ancestral Heritage).

1999, Christopher Hutton, Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language, published 2001, page 65:

When the RuSHA was restructured, the department was dissolved with its responsibilities passing to the Ahnenerbe.

2015, Hans Tridle, The Esoteric Codex: Nazism and the Occult, page 24:

(historical) A National Socialist German organization whose goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race, and later to experiment and launch voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world.


Aryanization

(Nazism) The process of the removal of non-Aryan elements from a society.


Austrofascism

(historical) A fascist political movement in Austria between 1933 and 1938 until the country's annexation by Nazi Germany.


Hitler Channel

From the large number of World War II documentaries aired on the channel before the creation of the sister network Military History.

Whenever Martin was home, he’d flip around and invariably end up on the History Channel, watching some World War II documentary. I called it the Hitler Channel, since it always featured a Nazi rally or tanks moving on Poland.[…]When we got back to our fairy-tale building in Brooklyn, I cooked and worked and made our bed after we made love in it. I didn’t even mind when he played his music too loud. I didn't mind the Hitler Channel, really.

2004, Helene Stapinski, Baby Plays Around: A Love Affair, with Music, Villard Books, →ISBN, pages 93 and 99:

The children were all tucked in, the dog had been taken for his walk, he was just going to settle down and watch the Hitler channel, (his pet name for The History Channel.)

2009, Hubert L. Bird, chapter 8, in The Temple of Solomon, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

“My grandma had the TV set permanently on the Hitler Channel this summer,” she told me. “I didn’t have a choice.” Erin called the History Channel the Hitler Channel, because every time she switched it on, they were showing a program about World War II.

2012, Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 50:

“And, as we are speaking of weapons, the last operational Spitfires should join them.” “Are you certain?” I asked, thinking of a previous age when we watched the Hitler Channel together in the afternoons.

2018 November 3, Ian Jack, “British icons to throw off the white cliffs: what’s on your list?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2018-11-03:

(informal, derogatory or humorous) The American television channel History.

History (American TV network)
Military History (TV network)


kolovrat

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kolovortъ. In historical records, similar symbols were recorded as ладинец (ladinec) in Russian or słoneczko in Polish.
This spelling was influenced by Russian коловра́т (kolovrát), the more well-known form of the symbol invented by the neo-pagan leader Alexey Dobrovolsky in the 1990s.

In contrast, Krasnodar respondents were keen to differentiate between the kolovrat and the swastika, while recognizing the symbolic connections between them: […]

2009, George McKay, Michael Goddard, Christopher Williams, Neil Foxlee, editors, Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 284:

(paganism, politics, fascism, nationalism) An eight-spoked swastika used by Slavic neopagan, fascist, and nationalist groups.


Holohoax

(offensive, used by Holocaust deniers) The Holocaust viewed as an event which is fabricated and did not happen.

holokaustihuijaus

the Holocaust viewed as a fabricated event


14 is from the Fourteen Words, a White nationalist slogan by David Lane. 14-88, 14/88, 88² are all tied to 74 in David's "Pyramid Prophecy" (each 14 Words slogan containing 74 characters and the value 741).
88 has also been used by some (albeit not Lane) to signify HH, an abbreviation of Heil Hitler with the letters replaced by their numerical position in the alphabet.

If you ever encounter a communist/marxist/leninist in a bar, etc, .... you know what to do.
Just remember, a roll of quarters and/or tin-foil.
1488
P.S.: Don't forget the phone book

1997 January 22, "Andrew Apollo" (user), in "Hi, I'm becky" in alt.skinheads, Usenet

I wish a happy birthday to the one true GOD, Adolf Hitler who awaits the day of reckoning in Valhalla! They will all one day know that you were right Mein Führer and the great day will come when the earth will be cleansed of the filth, the untermennschen, and the world will breath once again because it will be a bright, white, and clean world! Victory or Valhalla!! Heil Hitler! 1488!!!!!!!

2001 April 20, "Anonymous" (user), "Happy birthday Mein Führer!", in alt.fan.adolf-hitler, Usenet

"Wilhelm Kuhlmann" wrote in message
news:bb495161-399c-480f...@p37g2000prp.googlegroups.com...
> We encourage our readers to refer to Mr. Paul as Ron Paul 1488 as
> often as possible so this name will stick to him. The 14 stands for
> the Fourteen Words: ï¿½We must secure the existence of our people and a
> future for white children.ï¿½ H is the eighth letter of the alphabet so
> 88 stands for Heil Hitler.
Right. This is really going to hit home with about 14 people, maybe 88.

2011 August 22, "~M~" (user), "Re: OT: Ron Paul 1488: The Stormfront Candidate", in rec.gambling.poker, Usenet

For those who found the aggressive racism of the Daily Shoah too light, The Daily Stormer linked up the “1488 crowd”—the more traditional neo-Nazis—with the newest generation of the Alt Right.

2017 November 6, Shane Burley, Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, AK Press, →ISBN:

Andrew Anglin, "Top Right-Wing Tweeter Jared Wyand Goes Full-1488, Condemns Jews," Daily Stormer, November 21, 2016.

2018, Yochai Benkler, Rob Faris, Harold Roberts, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 415:

He had helped “struggling” families with checks for 1488 euros: 14 refers to the supremacist slogan (“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”) and 88 is a code for Heil Hitler (twice the eighth letter[…]

2021 July 27, Gisela Pereyra Doval, Gastón Souroujon, Global Resurgence of the Right: Conceptual and Regional Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN:

(neo-Nazism, white supremacy) A neo-Nazi symbol or dog whistle, used to signal one's support for Nazism, or as a greeting or expression of praise.


ZOG

Zionist occupation government
Zionist occupation government#English

Acronym of Zionist occupation government.


Hoaxocaust

(rare, offensive, used by Holocaust deniers) The Holocaust, seen as a hoax.


feminazism

Mike Schwartz raised the "matriarchal society in Sci Fi" issue as indicating that Sci Fi writers had experienced "feminazism."

1993 September 23, Tom Tilley, “Re: Who are the Feminazis?”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), message-ID <1993Sep23.011720.16180@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>:

(derogatory) Aggressive militant radical feminism.


Fascist

In May 1929 Hitler successfully prosecuted a libel action against right-wing and left-wing opponents who had accused him of ‘betraying’ the South Tyrol in return for Fascist gold.

1978, Meir Michaelis, Mussolini and the Jews: German-Italian relations and the Jewish question in Italy, 1922–1945, Clarendon Press, page 46:

By the late 1930s Rome had new Fascist bridges, a new university, four new post offices and a number of new ministry buildings, which included, on Via Veneto, the Ministry of Corporations, that were to be Fascism’s answer to capitalist exploitation and Marxist class hatred.

2019, Matthew Kneale, “seven”, in Rome: A History in Seven Sackings, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, published 2017, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 305:

(fascism, history) Of or pertaining to the Kingdom of Italy from 1922–1943.


Fascist

(fascism, historical, sometimes attributive) A member of the National Fascist Party in Italy from 1922 to 1943.

The Fascists invaded the USSR, they occupied many cities, they killed millions of people, they destroyed half the country.

2010, German Sadulaev, I Am a Chechen!, Random House, →ISBN, section 10, page 199:

(fascism, historical, sometimes attributive) Synonym of Nazi


ecofascism

No ecofascism government has yet existed, but important aspects of it can be discerned in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was Blut und Boden, “[pure] blood and [pure] land.”

2008, Bron Taylor, editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 531:

But eco-fascism is a longstanding political ideology that is currently undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the contemporary extremist right. In general, unlike many on the political right, eco-fascists concede the reality of looming ecological catastrophe. But the “solutions” they propose are frankly genocidal.

2019 March 19, Jason Wilson, “Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right”, in The Guardian:

As climate change politics develop, ecofascism and neo-Malthusian thought are also gathering strength.

2020, Oscar Berglund, Daniel Schmidt, Extinction Rebellion and Climate Change Activism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 3:

But we are beginning to get a picture of what new kinds of eco-fascism and eco-authoritarianism might look like, including its genocidal implications.

2021 May 7, Luke Buckmaster, “The Mad Max films depict a world increasingly degraded. Furiosa will be far from comforting”, in The Guardian:

The combination of fascist politics with support for ecological concerns.

(derogatory) Aggressive environmental activism.


fascistoid

en-adj

fascistoid (comparative more fascistoid, superlative most fascistoid)

more fascistoid (comparative)
most fascistoid (superlative)

From fascist + -oid.
First attested in an article by Geoffrey Pyke in The New Statesman on 5 September 1936.

We must now be prepared, too, for that Puritan reaction here, which seems to accompany all Fascistoid movements.

5 September 1936, Geoffrey Pyke, “Politics and Witchcraft”, in The New Statesman, volume 12:

In sum, we ought to realise that our enthusiasm for sports heroes is fascistoid in nature.

2002, Claudio Tamburrini, Torbjörn Tännsjö, Values in Sport: Elitism, Nationalism, Gender Equality and the Scientific Manufacturing of Winners:


Strasserism

From Strasser + -ism, named after Gregor (1892-1934) and Otto Strasser (1897-1974), anti-Hitler members of the Nazi Party.

The political philosophy and practices of Otto Strasser and his Black Front, characterized by support of German National Socialism, but opposition to Hitlerism.

Gregor Strasser
Otto Strasser
Strasserism


far-rightist

far-rightist (comparative more far-rightist, superlative most far-rightist)

more far-rightist (comparative)
most far-rightist (superlative)


fascistization

Felter Sartori’s colonial travelogue marks an important moment in the process of fascistization of Italian colonial discourse in general and of women’s discursive practice in particular.

2005, Cristina Lombardi‐Diop, “Pioneering Female Modernity: Fascist Women in Colonial Africa”, in Ruth Ben‐Ghiat, Mia Fuller, editors, Italian Colonialism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 151:

This rupture emerged through a challenge to the status quo on a global scale and was followed by the fascistization of the Japanese polity through the incorporation of new forms of corporatism, militarism, and authoritarianism, as suggested by the ‘rejectionists’, but whose sum went well beyond any single one of these features.

2017 June 8, Louise Young, “When fascism met empire in Japanese-occupied Manchuria*”, in Journal of Global History, volume 12, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 279:

(fascism) The process of making or becoming fascist.


straight pride

At least one Tea Party rally took heat from the gay community and human rights groups for allowing the sale of straight pride clothing and paraphernalia.

2010, Erin McHugh, Coffee, Tea, or Kool-Aid: Which Party Politics Are You Swallowing?, →ISBN, →OCLC:

After being arrested and humiliated for being straight, Owen organizes a Straight Pride Parade for himself and others to come out of the closet.

2015, Vincent Terrace, Internet Lesbian and Gay Television Series, 1996–2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:

In June, a group calling itself Super Happy Fun America announced it was planning a Straight Pride Parade in Boston. The group says they requested the same route as the Boston Pride Parade, which marched from Copley Square to Government Square on June 8.

2019 July 1, Nico Lang, “The distraction of Straight Pride, as explained by LGBTQ activists and historians”, in Vox News, archived from the original on 2019-07-01:

A Colorado father is suing the state's largest school district, claiming staff refused to let him display a "straight pride" flag alongside the Progress Pride flags on view throughout his children's Denver school.

2023, Hannah Ray Lambert, “Father sues school district for refusing to display straight pride flag alongside Progress Pride flag”, in Fox News:

(alt-right) A display of pride in one's heterosexuality, as a reactionary movement to gay pride.

Mandarin 直人驕傲 /直人骄傲

pride in one's heterosexuality in reaction to gay pride


Mosleyite

A supporter of Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), English politician and founder of the British Union of Fascists.


Hitleresque

Hitleresque (comparative more Hitleresque, superlative most Hitleresque)

more Hitleresque (comparative)
most Hitleresque (superlative)

Reminiscent of German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889–1945).


Samudaripen

Coined by linguist Marcel Courthiade, from Romani samudaripen (“mass killing”), from sa (“all”) + mudaripen (“killing”), from mudarel (“kill”); compare holokausto.

Synonym of Porajmos (“planned and attempted genocide of the Romani people”)


Nazisploitation

You should see “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS,” the notorious sleazefest now considered a touchstone of the Nazisploitation craze of the 1970s.

2008 August 14, Nathan Lee, “Nazisploitation Making a Comeback”, in The New York Times:

As a result, Nazisploitation has ensured that Nazi evil has had an impressive staying power.

2010, Claire M. Hall, “Where Does Evil Sit in the Classroom?: Problematizing Teaching about Hitler, Nasty Nazis, and the Holocaust”, in Sara Buttsworth, Maartje M. Abbenhuis, editors, Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-war Popular Culture, Praeger, →ISBN, page 227:

In general, Nazisploitation movies encompass those that use the fascination of Nazi imagery, ideology, symbols and artifacts to increase its commercial appeal.

2012, Benedikt Eppenberger, “Eine Armee Gretchen: Nazisploitation Made in Switzerland”, in Daniel H. Magilow, Elizabeth Bridges, Kristin T. Vander Lugt, editors, Nazisploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 155:

(film) A subgenre of exploitation film that involves villainous Nazis committing criminal acts of a sexual nature, typically against people held in their concentration camps and prisons during World War II.


Eurofascism

The modern European fascist movement, or its philosophical framework.


BUF

(fascism) Initialism of British Union of Fascists. (A political group of the 1930s.)


Shitler

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(informal, vulgar, derogatory, sometimes humorous) Adolf Hitler.


prefascist

In the political life of prefascist Italy personal relationships were more important than group ideals or programs of cooperative action.

1945 December 28, American Historical Association, “From “Geographical Expression” to European Power”, in What is the Future of Italy?, Washington 25, D.C.: War Department, page 5:

To anticipate the discussion, I believe that the Moorian and Weberian arguments are quite convincing as descriptions of the social and political structure of prefascist Germany.

2019, Dylan Riley, chapter 5, in The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain, and Romania, 1870–1945, New York: Verso, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 181:


stolperstein

en-noun

stolperstein (plural stolpersteins or stolpersteine)

stolpersteins (plural)
stolpersteine (plural)

Borrowed from German Stolperstein (literally “stumbling block”), from stolpern (“to stumble”) + Stein (“stone”).

compound

A "stolperstein" was put in front of the house, and the scattered diaspora of Bertam's family reunited there.

2014 February 7, Evertjan. [username], “One son, Bertram, missed that boat ...”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

BTW what happened to all those people whose stolpersteins I saw last time in Koln and Berlin and where did the all those Jews,gypsies,^([sic]) mentally/physically retarded people who were there in 1932 go to?

2014 April 28, Dechucka [username], “Re: Another World-Wide Holohoax Promo”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

In 2023, Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones” for the 16 lost members will be laid in the sidewalk in front of their former homes in the Austrian capital.

2022 December 23, Rebecca Schmid, “An Orchestra Reflects on War and Its Aftermath”, in The New York Times:

Seen this way, eponyms might be compared to the modern German tradition of Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones”— brass plaques, embedded in cobblestone streets across Europe, that commemorate Holocaust victims by listing their names and the date they were seized from their homes.

2023 June 19, Rachel E. Gross, “Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A small, cobblestone-sized memorial for an individual victim of Nazism.


national-anarchism

(politics, economics) A primitivist, anticapitalist, anticommunist, antistatist social philosophy emphasizing ethnic tribalism and forms of nationalism.


national-anarchist

(politics) A person who advocates national-anarchism.


Lügenpresse

From German Lügenpresse (“lying press”).

When a video of two Donald Trump supporters shouting “Lügenpresse” (lying press) started to circulate Sunday, viewers from Germany soon noted its explosive nature. The defamatory word was most frequently used in Nazi Germany.

[2016 October 24, Rick Noack, “The ugly history of ‘Lügenpresse,’ a Nazi slur shouted at a Trump rally”, in Washington Post, →ISSN:

(US politics, derogatory) lamestream media


shabbos goy

/ˈʃɑbəs ˈɡɔɪ/

Borrowed from Yiddish שבת גוי (shabes goy, literally “Sabbath gentile”).

bor+

(neo-Nazism, derogatory) A Gentile who holds philo-Semitic views, at the expense of their own race.


reichtard

(derogatory, offensive) A racist and ignorant rightist.


alt-right

en-noun

alt-right (countable and uncountable, plural alt-rights)

Donald Trump
Richard B. Spencer
United States Republican Party
alt-right

Abbreviation of alternative right, equivalent to alt- + right, due to it being an alternative to conventional American right-wing and Republican ideologies. The word took its current meaning from a website called 'Alternative Right' created by Richard Spencer and Colin Liddell in 2010, being used only sporadically prior to 2010. The word became prominent in 2015 with the rise of Donald Trump.

So a right without a Buckley will probably be smaller, and uglier to boot. I would expect this alt-right to be a lot more vigorously opposed to the civil rights movement than OTL's. It will also be much less relevant, and probably not snag a certain Californian actor. I predict, then, that America, on the whole, looks a bit more like a Western European social democracy, but with a right wing that looks (hmm...thinking...) well, looks almost fascist.

2003 March 31, Andrew Reeves, “Re: VDI: William F. Buckley Jr.”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-16, message-ID <fd61b1a1.0303310802.1540fd2f@posting.google.com>:

"But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and 'woke' dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female 'Ghostbusters' and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay."

2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times:

(uncountable) An amorphous movement of right-wing white nationalists opposed to multiculturalism and egalitarianism by race and sex, mostly active on the Internet.


monarcho-fascist

Yet the leadership of the Greek Communist Party adopted the standpoint that the people was to be disarmed and its weapons handed to the monarcho-fascist reactionaries, making the excuse that monarcho-fascism would not be for a peaceful democratic development, and hence the people's liberation movement would be compelled to settle the question of power the revolutionary way.

1992, Haris Vlavianos, Greece, 1941–49: From Resistance to Civil War, →ISBN:

Already in the October circular which initiated this trend, the central committee's secretariat called on party members to join forces with “socialists, anarchists, republicans, nationalists; everyone in one bloc facing the fascist bloc of the various monarcho-fascist parties of the bourgeoisie."

1996, Gerd-Rainer Horn, European Socialists Respond to Fascism, →ISBN:

Before the war "he advanced hostile, left-sectarian Trotskyist ideas in relation to the peasants . . . and helped the monarcho-fascist power."

2014, E. P. P. Thompson, Carl Winslow, E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics, →ISBN:

(politics, usually derogatory) Of or related to monarcho-fascism, concerning a fascist state or system of government headed by a king or queen.


monarcho-fascist

The Greek monarcho-fascists, who put themselves in power only with the aid of foreign bayonets, suppose, not without foundations, that in the future also their fate will depend solely on suport from without.

1952, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press - Volume 3, page 16:

It was the provocations of the monarcho-fascists on the one hand and "the slanders upon Yugoslavia" on the other hand "which obliged the Yugoslavs to close the frontier completely and so defend their country".

1987, Lars Bærentzen, John O. Iatrides, Ole Langwitz Smith, Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949, →ISBN, page 294:

In April 1937 it united formally with the rest of the right—Carlist traditionalists, the 'monarcho-fascists' of Renovación Española and the residues of the CEDA—to form the monopolistic party of a state many would regard as 'fascist'.

2003, Martin Blinkhorn, Fascists and Conservatives, →ISBN:

(politics, usually derogatory) A supporter of monarcho-fascism generally; a supporter of a particular monarcho-fascist regime.

μοναρχοφασίστας

an adherent of a monarcho-fascist government


monarcho-fascism

In the village, I saw the full consequences of monarcho-fascism upon proud, decent people who fought for freedom and national independence.

2013, George Kassimeris, Inside Greek Terrorism, →ISBN:

Finally, he cites a set of corporatist regimes, such as King Carol's monarcho-fascism in Romania from 1938, followed by General Antonescu's military fascism from 1940-44, as well as the French Vichy regime.

2014, Antonio Costa Pinto, Roger Eatwell, Stein Ugelvik Larsen, Charisma and Fascism, →ISBN:

(politics, usually derogatory) A political system in which a monarch wields fascistic control over opposition, criticism, and the economy, a fascist system of government led by a king or queen.


Stormfronter

Somebody who frequents the white supremacist web site Stormfront.


cultural Bolshevism

(Nazism, politics, historical) Those cultural elements that were perceived by the Nazi party to be propagating politically undesirable Bolshevik ideas.

kulturbolşevizm

cultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas


Q clearance

(US) A security clearance issued by the United States Department of Energy, allowing access to top-secret material.


yellow badge

(historical) A cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public, especially in Nazi-controlled states during the 1930s and 1940s.


alt-righter

Not all alt-righters will agree with our taxonomy of the movement. Hacker and white nationalist Andrew Auernheimer, better known as weev, responded in typically jaw-dropping fashion to our enquiries: “The tireless attempts of you Jews to smear us decent Nazis is shameful.”

2016 March 29, Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos, “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide To The Alt-Right”, in Breitbart:

“Thanks for the free PR Hillary,” tweeted a self-described alt-righter. “The #alt-right will long remember the day you helped make us into the real right.”

2016 August 27, Maureen Dowd, “The Alt-Right Is All Wrong”, in The New York Times:

Mr. Trump disavowed the alt-righters once the excesses of Mr. Spencer’s conference went viral. But as a candidate, Mr. Trump called the government corrupt, assailed the Republican establishment, flouted almost every rule of political etiquette, racial and otherwise, and did so in a way that made the alt-righters trust his instincts.

2016 December 2, Christopher Caldwell, “What the Alt-Right Really Means”, in The New York Times:


neo-reactionary

en-adj

neo-reactionary (comparative more neo-reactionary, superlative most neo-reactionary)

more neo-reactionary (comparative)
most neo-reactionary (superlative)

/ˌniːəʊɹɪˈakʃn̩(ə)ɹi/

From neo- + reactionary, in the contemporary meaning popularized in a 2010 blog post.

Following the outbreak of a revolution in Bolivia in December, 1943, the CTAL labeled the new Bolivian regime a "neo-reactionary victory" and pointed out that "their aim is undemocratic […]".

1945, Labor Fact Book, volume 7, page 197:

Austria narrowly avoided installing a neo-reactionary president in last year’s two elections.

2017 April, Andrew Sullivan, “The Reactionary Temptation”, in New York Magazine:

Neoreactionary thought contends that the world would operate much better in the hands of a few tech-savvy elites in a quasi-feudal system.

2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics, chiefly derogatory) Reacting against the (especially liberal) values of the modern world; now typically seen as characterised by opposition to egalitarianism, support for strong centralised government, and espousal of conservative economic policies.


electric Jew

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Television, regarded as dominated by Jewish interests.


reich winger

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(US, slang, politics, derogatory) A right-winger, especially an advocate for more extreme or militant views.


honorary Aryan

(historical) A title accorded to the Japanese and some other people by Nazi Germany. Although of a different race, they were considered by the Nazis to possess qualities similar enough to German Nordic characteristics to warrant the designation.

kunnia-arjalainen

person who was Aryan only informally, according to the Nazis


Judeo-Bolshevism

Jewish Bolshevism
Jewish Bolshevism#English

(derogatory) Synonym of Jewish Bolshevism.


beefsteak Nazi

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They were regarded, like a cooked steak, as being brown on the outside (Nazi uniform colour) and red on the inside (a colour associated with communism and socialism).

(historical, derogatory) A communist or socialist in Nazi Germany who joined the Nazi Party.


loxism

From lox + -ism, presumably on the basis that lox is a food associated with Jewish people and by analogy with terms such as racism, but the specific reasoning for the coinage is otherwise uncertain. First attested in 2005.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:loxism.

(neo-Nazism) Hatred of (non-Jewish) white people by Jews.


Aryanism

en-noun

Aryanism (countable and uncountable, plural Aryanisms)

The religious significance of Aryanism consisted, first, in the racial division of mankind which it proposed, and second, in its advocacy of the religio-cultural orientation appropriate to the Aryan nations.

1998, A. Leoussi, Nationalism and Classicism, page 93:

The ideological belief in the superiority of a defined Aryan race, particularly as an element of Nazism.


Eurasianism

neo-Eurasianism

specifically the ideology by Aleksandr Dugin and the like

Ruscism

a movement supporting Vladimir Putin and militarism

(politics) A far-right movement and its ideology promoted by Alexandr Dugin, often seen as a Russian kind of fascism


alt-light

It [new atheism] was one of the predecessors to the alt-light, with an underlying Christopher Hitchens style of hitting out at the irrational and the faithful.

2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 7, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN:

He is also adored by figures on the so-called alt-light (basically the “alt-right” without the sieg heils and the white ethnostate), including Mike Cernovich, Gavin McInnes and Paul Joseph Watson.

2018 February 7, Dorian Lynskey, “How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?”, in The Guardian:

(Internet, derogatory) A nebulous grouping of far-right people and ideologies, mostly active on the internet, who are largely aligned with the alt-right but reject explicit white nationalism and anti-Semitism.


Third Position

A neofascist political stance that opposes both capitalism and communism.


Third Positionist

Third Positionist (plural Third Positionists)

A person who adopts the Third Position as a political stance.


Jewish Bolshevism

(derogatory) Soviet Communism (Marxism-Leninism) when viewed, usually by those on the right wing, as a Jewish political ideology; Judeo-Bolshevism.

اَلْبُلْشِفِيَّة اَلْيَهُودِيَّة

Soviet Communism from right-wing point of view

јѐврејскӣ бољшевѝзам јудеобољшевѝзам јудеокомунѝзам

jèvrejskī boljševìzam judeoboljševìzam judeokomunìzam


alt-lite

Mr. Spencer predicted that the conservative movement’s broader embrace of the far right could start with news media outlets adding what he described as “alt-lite” hosts.

2016 November 6, Jonathan Mahler, Julie Turkewitz, “Donald Trump’s Extremist Supporters Feel Like Winners Either Way”, in New York Times:

The speakers described themselves as ‘alt-lite’, disassociating themselves with white supremacists.

2017 August 21, “Protesters get heavy with ‘alt-lite’ rally”, in Metro News UK:

While the “alt-lite” may have successfully distanced itself from the worst extremists, it can sometimes seem unclear exactly how “lite” the new movement is.

2018 January 22, J Oliver Conroy, “An evening with 'deplorables': inside the alt-right party in Manhattan”, in The Guardian:

While he claims it was an accident -- because who among us hasn’t accidentally tweeted hate speech multiple times -- it does highlight the biggest danger D’Souza poses: the “alt-lite” to alt-right pipeline.

2018 December 2, Jonathan Wolfson, “Opinion: Dinesh D’Souza event degrades quality of academic dialogue at AU”, in The Eagle:


triple parentheses

(neo-Nazism) The parentheses "((( )))" placed around a name or thing (used to indicate that somebody or something has a Jewish background or is thought to be insidiously controlled by the Jews).


useless eater

Gerhard Kretschmar seemed perfectly to fit Hitler's idea of a “useless eater,” and when the KdF men informed him of the case, he leapt into action, summoning his personal physician, Karl Brandt, and ordering him to travel immediately to Leipzig to investigate.

2021, Charlie English, The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art, Random House, →ISBN, page 174:

(Nazism) In the ideology of Nazi Germany, a person with a serious medical problem or disability, seen as requiring assistance from society but offering nothing in return.


fashwave

Blend of fascist + vaporwave, equivalent to fash + -wave. Compare synthwave, darkwave, new wave.

“The Jew-owned Buzzfeed^([sic]) blog has done an article about how fashwave has become the musical soundtrack of the alt-right,” the piece said.

2016 December 14, Michael Hann, quoting Reggie Ugwu, “'Fashwave': synth music co-opted by the far right”, in The Guardian:

In fashwave, as in all fascist art (yes, that’s what the “fash” part stands for), the far right’s insecurities and apocalyptic death wish are chiefly on display.

2018 January 13, Jack Smith IV, “This is fashwave, the suicidal retro-futurist art of the alt-right”, in Mic:

Vaporwave music and art with fascist themes.


edjewcation

(slang, derogatory) Education, seen as controlled by Jewish interests.


Holocash

The Times of London credited this capitulation to the "Holocash" campaign in the United States.

I've never been a big fan of Stoney but this takes some serious balls. The Holocash is a huge money-maker for hollywood.

2010 July 26, Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are Murderers, “Re: Oliver Stone Commits Career Suicide - CALLS FOR HOLOCAUST DEBATE”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

The Germans have said no to the latest Jewish demand for Holocash. A Greek Jewish group demanding that the Germans must give them money […]

2014, Heinrich, “Finally: Germans Reject Jewish Demand for Holocaust Bucks”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

(offensive) Monetary gain resulting from exploitation of the Holocaust by Jews, or the Holocaust itself, regarded (by anti-Semites) as having been exploited by Jews for monetary gain.


alt right

en-adj

alt right (comparative more alt right, superlative most alt right)

more alt right (comparative)
most alt right (superlative)


tradthot

From trad (“traditional”) + thot (“promiscuous woman”), by analogy with tradwife.

compound

What Sommer calls a “full-scale freakout” against women of the far right has ensued. At the forefront is a former D.C. pick-up artists who goes by Roosh V. He “intoned to his followers on YouTube about how they had been grifted by the 'tradthots.'”
“Scratch a traditional girl, one who has some kind of fame, and you reveal a feminist every single time,” Roosh warned his acolytes.

2017 December 7, James Warren, “The Misogynist Civil War Within the Alt-Right”, in Vanity Fair:

Several longtime alt-right commentators have begun to post lengthy warnings denouncing “trad thots” — women they deem disingenuous in their support — who they say latch onto the movement as a source of fame or money.

2018 June 1, Annie Kelly, “The Housewives of White Supremacy”, in The New York Times:

When a viewer complained about the poor lighting and sound quality in her video, Lacey Lynn explains that she could upgrade but that would likely require accepting user donations, and if she did that, she would be considered a Trad Thot by the community.

2020, Christopher Charles, "(Main)streaming Hate: Analyzing White Supremacist Content and Framing Devices on YouTube ", dissertation submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 175

(slang, derogatory) A woman whose self-professed support of traditional Western gender roles is viewed as insincere or opportunistic.