goat@sh.itjust.worksM to MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 10 months agoTankies unironically consider Fascists the same as Liberals and Progressivessh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down128
arrow-up170arrow-down1imageTankies unironically consider Fascists the same as Liberals and Progressivessh.itjust.worksgoat@sh.itjust.worksM to MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squareForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·10 months agoFascism is distinctly right wing. Tankies are totalitarian, fascists are also totalitarian. Communism isn’t totalitarian. However, every communist that’s gained power becomes a totalitarian or supports totalitarianism.
minus-squareThrowawaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·10 months agoAlso, if every communist regime is totalitarian, at what point does it become part of communism? In any case, I think there needs to be a disctinction between “communism the theory” and “communism the practice”
minus-squareThrowawaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·10 months agoLet me rephrase, fascism as the word is currently used is found everywhere in the economic spectrum. We aren’t talking about 1930s Italy.
Fascism is distinctly right wing. Tankies are totalitarian, fascists are also totalitarian.
Communism isn’t totalitarian. However, every communist that’s gained power becomes a totalitarian or supports totalitarianism.
Also, if every communist regime is totalitarian, at what point does it become part of communism? In any case, I think there needs to be a disctinction between “communism the theory” and “communism the practice”
Let me rephrase, fascism as the word is currently used is found everywhere in the economic spectrum.
We aren’t talking about 1930s Italy.
But what about my bundle of sticks?