VGPolyglot on 07 February 2017
| Shadow1980 said: Fascism is inherently an evil philosophy that is necessarily authoritarian and hyper-nationalist/jingoist, usually with racist and irredentist tendencies. The Holocaust and other crimes against humanity are a necessary consequence of fascism once it gains hold of the reigns of power. Every bad thing that comes to mind when one thinks of fascism is an explicit goal of the ideology. Evil is built into fascism by design. Communism is inherently neutral from a moral standpoint, being at its core an economic system, but it doesn't work in practice and is easily warped and abused by authoritarians. I don't think Marx had Joe Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, and the Kim dynasty in mind when he wrote Das Kapital. He was probably thinking of something closer to a country full of worker-owned factories and co-ops than the deliberately murder of millions of people by a totalitarian government. TL;DR, communism is a bad idea, but fascism is an evil idea. |
I guess that is an important distinction to make: fascism was created by political leaders, while communism was more of a prediction of the future. I don't think Marx anticipated the creation of the welfare state, though.
