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Why? "Communism" seems more akin to the word "dictatorship" in terms of "how evil is it", in that it is a broader category of politics with high correlation to
by happytoexplain 3y ago
Why? "Communism" seems more akin to the word "dictatorship" in terms of "how evil is it", in that it is a broader category of politics with high correlation to evil things, but not by definition, whereas the Nazi ideology is more specific and by definition evil. Why not want people to be educated about the reality of both, independently, without requiring that people consider them equal? That's usually petty whataboutism as a proxy for identity politics anyway.
- philwelch 3y agoIf Naziism survived, maybe whoever came after Hitler would have been more moderate and we could just write off the evils of the Hitler era as being the personal excesses of an especially brutal man, just like we do with Stalin. No, I don’t buy it. Communism always starts with mass murder and ends in economic stagnation. China seemed to turn it around but then they started back up with the genocide again. > That's usually petty whataboutism as a proxy for identity politics anyway. If people “identify” as communist, Nazi, or ISIS, I would prefer to exclude them from politics entirely (by custom, not by force at least to start) without getting sucked into the academic exercise of stack-ranking exactly which of these is worst.