09-06-2021, 03:51 AM
(09-05-2021, 02:43 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 05-Sep-2021 World View: Fascism and Stalinsm
(09-01-2021, 06:09 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > Your contradiction reeks. Fascism and Stalinism are not the same
> thing.
Stalinism, Fascism and Chinese Communism are all based on Socialism,
are all dictatorships, they all censor, jail, torture, rape, beat or
kill anyone who opposes them politically, and they're all being used
as a model by the Democrats. By referring to the Stalinist Fascist
Democrat regime, I'm making the point that the Democrats are adopting
the worst features of each.
The right-wing ultra-capitalist regimes of Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain, and the Greek colonels' regime were all plutocratic. Does the theocratic regime in Iran qualify as "socialist"? Hitler's "national" socialism turned industrial workers into serfs to the benefit of German tycoons. Hitler wanted the antithesis of Soviet-style "international" socialism as in the Soviet Union at the time. Hitler's "socialism" had no semblance of social justice. The Apartheid regime of South Africa was socialism for the white minority but dog-eat dog exploitation for everybody else (OK, the regime defined Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese as "white" if they were investors or administrators).
To be Stalinism has much in common with fascism, but did the Bolsheviks more imitate fascists than the fascists imitated the Bolsheviks?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
