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[–]Bonn1770Republican Party 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They changed the definition of "fascism" because it described the modern left perfectly.

https://www.thetrumpet.com/16521-did-you-know-google-redefined-the-word-fascism

One of the tactics Communists use is to call their political enemies "fascists", which goes along with their other rule of "always accuse your opponent of what you are doing".

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They changed the definition of "fascism" because it described the modern left perfectly.

One of the tactics Communists use is to call their political enemies "fascists", which goes along with their other rule of "always accuse your opponent of what you are doing".

You are entirely right about the misuse of the word fascism in this context, but you are making the same mistake in regards to communism which has also been redefined to mean something entirely different. Fascism and communism are the two most misunderstood words in politics. Neither the US Dems, nor China or Russia are practicing or attempting to do away with markets and institute anything close to a centrally planned economy with publicly owned means of production. Not to say those groups aren't all doing terrible authoritarian things, but it isn't communism any more than US Republicans are fascists

[–]HanssenBob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The biggest employer in the world (bigger than the populations of some countries) is the US federal government. If that's not a command economy, it's not far off.

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Those are service jobs, not the means of production, which is the explicit focus of Communism. We also have the highest concentration of private billionaires in the world. And the government politicians we elect have their campaigns financed by private superPAC funds from private corporations and billionaires.

What the WEF and their cronies want is literally the inverse of Communism. In communism the government owns all the corporations, in WEF ideology the Corporations and private elites control the government, and the public does NOT own the means of production.

I will grant that these ideas are similar in that they both give one entity the combined powers of economic production and governance, which historically has been a very bad idea, Communism included, but there are some important differences between Communism and the new economic ideology of the evil elite, primarily in who the entity is that has all this power. At least in Communism this entity is theoretically elected by the public, although it never works that way. In WEF ideology, their isn't even the illusion that the people are in control