Can people please quit calling the political crisis that's gone global these limited ignorant names like Nazism, Communism, and Fascism? Call it what it really is: authoritarianism and/or totalitarianism.

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[–]tomatosplat 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

Your friends: Patrisse Cullers, AOC, Oman and Sanders have already declared that they are communist. They call themselves that, which is a form of fascist totalitarianism. But you call them whatever you want. Dumbass.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Those aren't my friends. They are fake progressives. I've only ever heard them call themselves social-democrats, not communists. Cite some sources or shut up because clearly you don't know your dumbass from a hole in the ground because you don't even know what they call themeselves, nor do you seem to understand that fascism and communism are not the same, even if they appear the same.

[–]tomatosplat 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

Looks exactly like communism. Looks exactly like Mao, Stalin, Khrushchev, Pol Pot, Castro, Ceausescu. Communism is ALWAYS a dictatorship. ALWAYS.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I'm not debating who can and can't have a dictator. Lists of communists don't impress me. I won't impress you with another list of US-backed dictators. I don't know why you're linking to fascism, and a shitty definition at that. They mention Mussolini but neglect to provide his definition of fascism: the merger of corporations and the government.

The USA is a corporatocracy. That much must be obvious to you. Because it doesn't have a "dictator" I'd hesitate to call it fascist though the US has many fascist tendencies. Like communism, it's certainly totalitarian, but is actually inverted-totalitarianism (I recommend you check out Chris Hedges and/or his sources on inverted-totalitarianism). The top of the pyramid in Russia is Putin. The pyramid in the USA is topped with a tiny inverted pyramid with Trump and the government at the bottom and all the corporations above them.

The end of a gun looks like the end of any gun when it's facing you. But there are different guns, just like communism is distinctly different from fascism. Saying otherwise and pretending they are the same is willfully ignorant. They seem the same at our level, but they are different and understanding their differences lets us find ways to resist and fight them.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

the merger of corporations and the government.

When fascists talk about the corporation, they mean something close to a trade union.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Regardless how the governments are organized, it's always about dividing into us and them, and exploiting some to serve the others. ALL GOVERNMENTS have capitalist, socialist, communist, fascist, and totalitarian tendencies in different measures on different issues as it suits their interests.

[–]tomatosplat 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

By it's fruit shall you know the tree. If they both make apples, they're both apple trees.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Just a few bad apples.