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Big, successful, popular, dictatorial, charismatic movement like Chavism, say? It really hasn't been that long since then. You could argue that it's "not like
by bzbarsky 11y ago
Big, successful, popular, dictatorial, charismatic movement like Chavism, say? It really hasn't been that long since then. You could argue that it's "not like Nazism", I guess, in the details of interactions between the government and private industry, but in terms of taking and holding on to power it's quite the same.
And I'd quibble with your distinction between religion-based and non-religion-based movements. The whole point of movements like Nazism is that they act in much the way religion does. More like creating a new religion that co-opting an existing one, of course; maybe that's the difference you were getting at?