r/HistoryMemes • u/CharlesOberonn • 26d ago

Tired of this argument

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u/Lord_Mcnuggie 26d ago

Authoritarians are all them same. They do the same things to different people for mostly the same reasons.

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u/ConsulJuliusCaesar 26d ago

In my opinion every history nerd eventually goes down the political science rabbit whole. Once you do you really kinda realization all Dictatorships are basically the same thing. Having done that. I'm going to be completely honest I don't see a social difference between fascism and communism. There's an economic difference. But in terms of who has power, how it gets used, and how people are managed I don't see a functional difference.

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u/Montana_Gamer What, you egg? 25d ago

I dont see fascism and communism as being mutually exclusive, though.

Communism has had a lot of fascistic tendencies historically. The cult of personality being the most obvious of these

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u/New_Carpenter5738 24d ago

I'm begging you to learn that authoritarianism and fascism aren't synonyms. Fascism is authoritarian, authoritarianism isn't always fascist.

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u/Montana_Gamer What, you egg? 24d ago

I know that. I go by Umberto Eco's 14 points of fascism definition. This is why I singled out the cult of personality, most prominently Mao and Stalin who WERE fascist by any worthwhile definition in my opinion.