Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand that a fascist is not the same thing as a communist. But they’re equally despicable.
Fascism is inherently anti-democratic, communism isn’t. I know communism is a shorthand for stalinism / maoism and other totalitarian ideologies that use socialist facade (similar to national socialism) but it’s worth to make an effort not to discredit the whole idea.
Ignacio@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Yes, you’re right. Sometimes I think that communism is merely an economic system. But thinking about Stalin, Mao and Il-Sung, whose communist developments where economic, social, democratic and whatnot, it’s sometimes hard to discriminate the noise from the useful information too.
Besides, I can’t understand why communists / tankies are so prone to support dictators. Dictatorship is not exclusive to communism, even capitalism had and has some kind of dictatorships: Hungary, Belarus…