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 That was fast 

I just wanted to let you know that my proposed opening paragraph for the fascism article has already come under fire, less than a day after I wrote it. I'm surprised - I expected it to last two days at least. Anyway, you're an expert in the field so your contribution to the discussion is really needed. I really think we should make efforts to prevent the definition degenerating into an incoherent mess or something so vague as to be tautological (a definition amounting to ""fascism is an authoritarian ideology that is authoritarian"", like we had before). Thanks.    "