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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ISIS is a militant group fighting for Zionism and America, nothing to do with fascism. Ba'athism is pan-Arabic fascism though.

Maybe the term ur-facism is better for non Italian movements, as Umberto Eco used. https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

No, this 'definition of fascism' is beyond retarded. Can be applied to literally anything.