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Originally Posted by Glice

No you don't. Ever. I have never seen the word 'fascism' spelt 'facism' in any serious paper, journal or book. In fact, my American word-checker says that facism isn't a word.

EDIT: let me clarify that - if English borrows a word (which we have done, since before WWII), that doesn't immediately mean that a standardised spelling doesn't appear. English is built upon borrowed words, and we tend to standardise the spellings thereof. 'Standardise' and 'standardize' are examples of words with the same definitions and alternate spellings; 'facism' and 'fascism' are not.

bullocks!



Philosopher of Facism Giovanni Gentle

Definition-Facism from US Legal Definitions.com

in fact, just google search "Facism" and click "Scholar" option and a list of dozens and dozens of scholarly articles come up..

The neo-facist State: notes on the pathology of power in the Third …


A EQBAL - Arab Studies Quarterly, 1981 - Spring
Commemorate the Victory Over German Facism! Carry the Struggle …


L Ruiqing - Peking Review
Verstehen, Holism and Facism


D Cooper - ROYAL INSTITUTE OF …, 1996 - CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS



Psychoanalysis and facism: two incompatible approaches. The difficult role of …


AM Accerboni - Rev Int Hist Psychanal, 1988 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov





aside from the fact that when I was doing my senior thesis on the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, I came across that particular spelling in at least six different primary sources from the 1930s..

try not to sound so authoritative in the future when you are not as well informed as you believed : )