Fascistoid

The term fascistoid ("similar to fascism", "bearing fascist traits") describes properties or attitudes that are similar to fascism in various respects, but are not congruent with it. Individual components of an ideology or a political system are sometimes referred to as fascistoid. One then speaks of the fascist tendencies of the respective system or ideology.

The term is often used to describe particularly authoritarian or authoritarian behavior. For example, parts of the 1968 movement state that the leading representatives of the Federal Republic of the 1960s and 1970s had fascist traits or a post-fascist attitude. In public disputes, the term is used almost exclusively with polemical intent. For example, the public relations officer of the Diocese of Augsburg , Dirk Hermann Voss, assumed that the chairman of the Greens party , Claudia Roth , had "disturbing fascist traits" in the context of a dispute over Bishop Walter Mixa in 2007.

In sport there is a discussion as to whether the glorification of sport heroes does not lead to rankings being established solely on the basis of physical attributes. This reduction of the human being to his physical performance with simultaneous disdain for the opponent is also called fascistoid . According to Arnd Krüger , it is generally extremely difficult for children in high-performance cadres , as they, in a totalitarian system , can only continue to retain the privileged cadre status if they follow the coach and the sports association . This absolute focus on physical obedience is also considered fascistoid.

See also

• Fascism theory
• Nazi comparison

Web links

Wiktionary: fascistoid  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fascistoid. ( Memento from February 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Meyers Lexikon Online 2.0.
2. ↑ "Crazy" against "fascistoid". ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 20, 2007. 
3. ↑ Törbjörn Tännsjö: Is Our Admiration for Sports Heroes Fascistoid? In: Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. 25 (1998), 1, pp. 23-34.
4. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The trainers of the cadre children and young people in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Erwin Hahn, Hans Howald (Hrsg.): Children in competitive sports. Birkhäuser, Basel 1982, ISBN 3-0348-6699-2 , pp. 266-268.