I have a friend who studied the history of fascism. She gets angry when people call Trump (or some other villain du jour) fascist. "Words have meanings! Fascism isn't just any right-winger you dislike!" She says Narendra Modi, the current prime minister of India, is absolutely, literally, a fascist.

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[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The Nazis didn't practice fascism. They practiced national socialism.

Show me a "democracy" with "elections", and I'll show you a fascist state with a candidate selection process.

LOL this is a garden variety, boring far left criticism of electoralism. How dull.

[–]Noam_Chomsky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm still waiting for you to provide a definition for fascism.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Banned from Wikipedia, so you know it's accurate.

[–]Noam_Chomsky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nah.
Banned from Wikipedia means the state of Israel doesn't like it.