• darq@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You are just going to have to live with the fact that you’re the weirdo on this. People do not see Nazism and communism as similar or comparable. Nazism has discrimination and extermination of the “other” as core tenets of the ideology, communism is an economic model that simply does not have those elements no matter how desperate you are to assign them to it.

    Authoritarianism is bad. But communism is not authoritarian. Governments calling themselves communist have become authoritarian and committed atrocities. But as much as weirdos like yourself like to deny it, governments capable of genocide are also capable of lying about being communist.

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      1 year ago

      Completely agree, and I think the pithy tl;dr of this is simply:

      Communists have hurt and killed people in service of the ideology. With fascism, hurting and killing people is the ideology.

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      1 year ago

      Weird how he just… disappeared instead of admitting you may have a point. How long until he makes the same argument in another thread?

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      I mean most of the examples of “communism” we have are pretty damn authoritarian. The big two, the USSR and China, are all in on that shit, peaking with probably the mad regime of Stalin. Both are also pretty bad at communism.

      But every third nation on Earth is currently run by a right wing hardcore authoritarian of one sort or another, from petty dictators to (increasingly few) monarchs. It’s the only form of government right wing politicians ever really pay attention to and the only solution right wing politics ever proposes.

      (Yes, even the "Libertarians".)