Di Hein Htet Kyaw. Originale pubblicato il 17 ottobre 2025 con il titolo Why Myanmar’s Military Dictatorships are Fascist Regimes. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Già George Orwell avvertiva che la parola “fascismo” spesso si riduce ad un banale insulto. Si ricordano i tratti più evidenti, come il dispotismo e il militarismo, tralasciando le basi…

By Hein Htet Kyaw. Original article: Why Myanmar’s Military Dictatorships are Fascist Regimes, published on October 17, 2025. Translated into Burmese by Hein Htet Kyaw. ဂျော့ချ်အော်ဝဲလ်မှ သတိပေးခဲ့ဖူးသည့်အတိုင်း “ဖက်ဆစ်ဝါဒ” ဟူသော ဝေါဟာရမှာ တိကျသော အဓိပ္ပာယ်တို့အား ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်သည်။ အာဏာရှင်ဆန်မှုနှင့် စစ်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးစနစ်ကဲ့သို့သော အပေါ်ယံသွင်ပြင်တွေကိုသာ အဓိကထားကြည့်ကြသည့်အတွက် ၎င်းဖက်ဆစ်ဝါဒ၏ မူလအနှစ်သာရကို လျစ်လျူရှုမိကြပြီး၊ မဟုတ်မမှန် သုံးနှုန်းမှုနှင့် အလွဲသုံးစား ခေါ်ဝေါ်သုံးစွဲမှုတို့ကြောင့် “ဖက်ဆစ်” ဟူသော ဝေါဟာရ၏ အဓိပ္ပာယ်များ ပါးသွားခြင်းတို့ မကြာခဏ ဖြစ်ပေါ်ခဲ့သည်။ ထိုကဲ့သို့သော အာဏာရှင်ဆန်မှုများနှင့် စစ်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးစနစ်တို့သည် ဖက်ဆစ်အစိုးရများတွင်…

The term “fascism,” as George Orwell once cautioned, has often been diluted, losing its precise meaning and becoming a generic slur. This has led to its misapplication, where its core ideology is overlooked in favour of its more superficial traits, such as authoritarianism and militarism. While these are certainly present in fascist regimes, they are…

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