Not sure what you are basing any of this on. Marxism centres around class conflict and control over the means of production. Fascism centers around nationalism and militarism. Fascism also includes a belief in natural hierarchies which is quite the opposite to most Marxist ideologies.
The Soviet propaganda (Current day Russia actually uses a similar idea) is that anyone who opposes them are Nazies. The USSR had their own ideology cooked up by mostly Stalin, that where the vanguard party business comes from. Initially Stalin and Hitler were not in opposition at all, only when Hitler betrayed their treaty did they become opposing forces.
Initially yes, Marx wrote that achieving socialism requires a violent overthrow of the current system but in later writings he make mention of gradual reform also bring effective. Though he did favour revolution.
Dictatorship of the proletariat is a really badly chosen term but what it means is how society is structured in terms of power. The current system would be a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in Marxist language, it just means who controls the means of production.
Mao Zedong followed Marxism-Leninism, the ideology cooked up by Stalin. Stalin twisted Marxist writing to end up with nationalism, militarism, imperialism, an enemy in the form of an other and quite a few other fascist principles. The guy was a fascist hiding behind socialist aesthetics in short.
I would agree that Stalin’s idea of Marxism is quite awful but there are like a hundred ideologies that have roots in the writings of Marx which are better than the current capitalist system that is leeching off the working class to enrich a few individuals that do not contribute much to society.
Not sure what you are basing any of this on. Marxism centres around class conflict and control over the means of production. Fascism centers around nationalism and militarism. Fascism also includes a belief in natural hierarchies which is quite the opposite to most Marxist ideologies.
The Soviet propaganda (Current day Russia actually uses a similar idea) is that anyone who opposes them are Nazies. The USSR had their own ideology cooked up by mostly Stalin, that where the vanguard party business comes from. Initially Stalin and Hitler were not in opposition at all, only when Hitler betrayed their treaty did they become opposing forces.
Initially yes, Marx wrote that achieving socialism requires a violent overthrow of the current system but in later writings he make mention of gradual reform also bring effective. Though he did favour revolution.
Dictatorship of the proletariat is a really badly chosen term but what it means is how society is structured in terms of power. The current system would be a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in Marxist language, it just means who controls the means of production.
Mao Zedong followed Marxism-Leninism, the ideology cooked up by Stalin. Stalin twisted Marxist writing to end up with nationalism, militarism, imperialism, an enemy in the form of an other and quite a few other fascist principles. The guy was a fascist hiding behind socialist aesthetics in short.
I would agree that Stalin’s idea of Marxism is quite awful but there are like a hundred ideologies that have roots in the writings of Marx which are better than the current capitalist system that is leeching off the working class to enrich a few individuals that do not contribute much to society.