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In politics, hardline refers to the doctrine, policy, and posturing of a government or political body as being absolutist, or authoritarian. Hardline movements are usually extremist, militant, and uncompromising. However, the term hardline is often used positively. Hardline movements range across the entire political spectrum, including black nationalism, objectivism, neo-Nazism, Stalinism and other forms of totalitarian communism, radical feminism, and anti-revisionism.

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