Mr Puggsly said:
The word fascism confuses me because by definition we've seen it most practiced in sociailist/communist government. |
There's no such thing as a Communist government; it's anarchal.
While the party which ran the USSR was called the Communist party, they were socialists rather than communists. The USSR was a socialist republic.
Here's the difference between the three:
Communism has no class distinction.
Socialism aims to eliminate class disctinction.
Fascism aims to regulate class disctinctions.
Communism has no government - it's anarchal
Socialism can have any type of government
Fascism has an autocratic government
Communism has no capital.
Socialism distributes capital to the people and businesses of the people.
Fascism distributes capital to corporate partners where required.
Communism has no private land.
Socialism can have public and private land.
Fascism has no public land.
Communism has no competition because there's no private business
Socialism - uses a variety of unfixed mechanisms to deal with business competition.
Fascism regulates competition of private business; it's basically illegal.
Communism aims for complete equal ownership of the means of production across all people.
Socialism aims for equality of incomes across all people.
Fascism aims for a merit-based income. If you're strong and productive, you prosper; If you're weak and unproductive, you're eliminated.
Nazism, a form of fascism, counted Marxists, gays, Jews, Slavs, blacks, and sympathizers of any of those groups as weak by their definition.
The term Nazism confuses some people not educated on the era or German history. The socialist part throws them off. To put it easiest, Hitler's socialism and Marxist influenced socialism are two different things; the word that most people understand to fit Hitler's style of socialism is "fascism" - which is what I will call it from here on out. Fascism is neither socialism nor capitalism - it strongly opposes the idea of your wealthy billionaire CEOs and stock owners in capitalism and it equally opposes the idea of equality and class elimination. Fascism is concerned with the strengthening of the state by any means necessary. A good book which illustrates a more benevolent fascist society is Brave New World and its world state.
Nazism differs a little from standard fascism in that it takes on an extremist racial superiority element as well; the idea is that the fittest race in the world is the Aryan master-race; and so that was who got all the benefits while Slavs, Jews, Blacks, and many other minorities got concentration camps and gas chambers. This is something that is philosophically the opposite of anything in communism or socialism (by our current Western understanding of the term, and the Soviet Socialist understanding of the term back in the era of the USSR).
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
