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Different, yes, not "completely different extremes". It's fruitless to try to place communism, stalinism, fascism and nazism on any kind of scale of political i
by mseebach 13y ago
Different, yes, not "completely different extremes". It's fruitless to try to place communism, stalinism, fascism and nazism on any kind of scale of political ideologies that makes sense in the decidedly more moderate political climate of today. Their uniting feature of crushing totalitarianism completely overshadows the comparatively minor differences in political ideology.
The Soviet Union had the victors privilege of writing the history, and they wrote it in a way that pitted pure and good communism against singularly evil nazism and fascism - completely ignoring the point that the they had been allies just a few years earlier, and that Mussolini started out as a socialist.
- saraid216 13y ago> Their uniting feature of being invisible completely overshadows the comparatively minor differences in wavelength. Fixed that for you. Congrats on illustrating my point. I mean, are we really trying to argue that communism makes the trains run on time? In our "more moderate political climate of today", are we just incapable of using the word "totalitarianism"? Are we, as a culture, so laughable under-educated that we don't know what it means and can't use it in favor of butchering nuanced history? Okay, I guess that's actually true. Carry on.
- mseebach 13y agoI have no idea what you're trying to say. I responded to your assertion that stalinism and fascism are "completely different extremes".
- saraid216 13y agoI claimed X != Y. You then decided to lump X and Y together as The Bad Guys because of Z. I'm complaining that people are so ignorant that they can't seem to use the word Z and instead prefer X+Y.