biofascism means fascism with biomedical, bioessentialist, or eugenicist elements. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why “biofascism” is a great word
BIOFASCISM — [Noun] A political ideology that grafts the authoritarian ultranationalism of fascism onto biomedical and bioessentialist principles, using eugenicist doctrines to enforce a rigid, coercive social order. From the prefix bio- (pertaining to life or living organisms) + fascism (a political ideology of authoritarian ultranationalism). Unlike eugenics, which denotes the specific practice of selective breeding, or biopolitics, a neutral term for the regulation of populations, biofascism is the totalizing ideology that weaponizes such concepts for state purification. It is the cold gleam of calipers in a state clinic, the census transformed into a racial ledger, and the sterile language of heredity justifying the warm work of exclusion—the ultimate colonization of the citizen, whose body becomes a political commodity to be sorted and stamped.
Etymology
From bio- + fascism.
noun
- Fascism with biomedical, bioessentialist, or eugenicist elements.“Genetic determinism and biofascism go hand in hand.”