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Apr 8, 07, 11:04 #574
Daffy, let's leave aside what political science says about fascism and communism. Political scientists nowadays are often commie-fascists, or cowards.
Let's look at the actual theory and practice of both systems. On the basic level, both, among other things, advocate national selfisness, with one nation being the master nation (in Germany, Germans, in Russia, Russians, and in today US, the well-known small 'ethnic' group leading the alliance of 'minorities'). The economy is totally subservient to the state. The media are monopolized by the master nation.
The chief difference between the two systems seems to lie in the use of propaganda. Fascists openly speak of the superiority of one nation over others, praise brutal force, appeal to mass sentiments. Communists say all nations are equal, but in practice act as if one nation only were superior. But they also preach and practice brutal violence against their opponents and harp on the low sentiments of the masses.
Of course, the basic difference between fascism and communism is that from 1941 on, the fascists have been bitter adversaries of the communists, i.e. Russians, but untill 1941 both systems had coexisted in harmony. This mutual amicability reached its pinnacle in 1939, when Hitler and Stalin made, through their foreign ministers, Ribbentrop and Molotov, a non-aggression pact, which, in fact, was an aggression pact leveled at Poland and the so-called Baltic States.
Don't forget that the Russians considered communism as the highest stage of socialism, and Hitlerites regarded themselves as 'national socialists.'
By the way, when some time ago an Estonian or Latvian lady politician suggested that the EU should condemn nazism and communism as equally genocidal systems, there was an enraged reaction from the Jews in Germany. With rage they suggested that only nazism was bad, because it was bad to the Jews, and communism was good, because Stalin was good to the Jews and numerous Jews were communists. As a result, as far as I know, the EU has not condemned communism as a genocidal system, but has condemned nazism as such.
That is why today you can see on the streets of European cities young buttheads wearing T-shirts with 'CCCP,' sickle and hammer, and the child-killer psychopath Che Guevara's bireted conk.
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