re: #237 Salamantis

Communism and fascism were vastly different kinds of totalitarianisms in several fundamental respects. Based upon purifying race vs. based upon dissolving class. National vs. international. Private industry vs. state industry. These seminally defining and bifurcating distinctions you repeatedly dismiss, deny, belittle or ignore.

In your case, it sounds like you wanna proudly proclaim yourself to be a right-winger, without having to deal with the stigma of fascism. So you try your dead-level damnedest to sluff it off on the Left where it does not belong, for self-serving reasons.

I am a libertarian. I have no affinity for Fascism, Communism, or any other ideology of evil. Neither do any of these things hold any stigma for me. I’m just as willing to accept that communism and fascism are both RIGHT-WING ideologies as I am that they are both LEFT-WING ideologies. It just so happens that so many communists define themselves as leftists, and so many self-avowed leftists are closet communists, that I always accepted communism as a leftist ideology. European fascists also defined themselves as leftists, but if communists can be wrong about being leftists, then so can fascists.

What I won’t do is pretend that they are different simply because the excuses and propaganda used by one to justify its crimes vary in subtle ways from the excuses and propaganda used by the other to justify the very same crimes. Forgive me if I’m unwilling to play favorites with totalitarian prison states complete with secret police, death camps, and ethnic cleansing.

If you want to say that Fascism is right wing, fine. In that case, so is Communism.