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English
Etymology
From post- + fascism.
Noun
postfascism (usually uncountable, plural postfascisms)
- A new form of fascism.
- Coordinate term: neofascism
2019, David Broder, transl., The New Faces of Fascism , Verso Books, translation of Les Nouveaux visages du fascisme , by Enzo Traverso, →ISBN, page 6:Postfascism should also be distinguised from neofascism, that is, the attempt to perpetuate and regenerate old fascism. […] Postfascism is something else: in most cases, it does indeed come from a classical fascist background, but it has now changed its forms.
2021, Barney Warf, editor, Political Landscapes of Donald Trump, Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:Trumpian postfascism, in other words, emerged as an “accident” specific to U.S. neoliberal capitalism.
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