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It's extremely reductive to label the ideology of Marx and that of the Nazis as two sides of the same coin. Yea, planned economies suck and systematic mismanag
by 49531 8y ago
It's extremely reductive to label the ideology of Marx and that of the Nazis as two sides of the same coin.
Yea, planned economies suck and systematic mismanagement can have devastating effects, but you think that is comparable to an ideology of racial cleansing?
You think that the idea of democratic workplaces is the same as the idea of creating a master race? Governments do a lot of awful things, but at their core can you really say the ideas and tenets of communism are the same as Nazism?
It's not ironic that the symbols of communism aren't abhorred the same way as those of fascism, it's just that there's a little more nuance than "anti-capitalism is evil".
- sparkie 8y agoTo me it only seems that their is a lack of reflection among socialists to acknowledge the utter failures of communism everywhere and every time it has been preached. I believe most conservatives acknowledge the failures of facsism. I'm not comparing the specific details which differentiate the two ideologies, I'm comparing the traits which make them strikingly similar - the authoritarianism. Whether a commie or a fascist, it is the support of the use of state force to compel others into ones ideology that is the awful trait shared between the two camps.