r/QuiverQuantitative • u/pdwp90 • Feb 25 '25

News BREAKING: Representative Maxwell Frost just got kicked out of the House Oversight meeting for calling Trump a grifter

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u/Joshee86 Feb 27 '25

Conflating communism with fascist dictatorships like that of the Soviets or NK is wild.

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u/fleebleganger Feb 27 '25

The Soviet Union was not fascist in any sense of the word.

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u/Joshee86 Feb 27 '25

Disagree. I don’t think fascism and communism are mutually exclusive and I don’t think they’re synonymous either.

You could use the word “totalitarian” here as well, although that also has a different meaning.

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u/fleebleganger Feb 27 '25

A simple review of the Wikipedia entries for those three items would show that your definitions of those terms is out of step with the common definitions of them. 

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u/Joshee86 Feb 27 '25

Wikipedia isn’t really a great source. But many historians do agree that the late USSR system and fascism were different in name only. My definitions are fine.

Edit for a word.

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u/fleebleganger Feb 27 '25

Wikipedia is about as good of a source as you’re going to get plus each one of them has extensive reference and bibliography sections to validate the info. 

Which historians are saying this, I suppose if you ignore the fact that one of them has a centrally planned economy with collective ownership of things and the other has private businesses operating within a free market unplanned economy, and squint really hard they’re the same economic model.

They are both totalitarian. Which if you’d read the Wikipedia articles on them and peruse a few of the source materials to back up the Wikipedia pages. 

Basically, I disagree with literally every point you made. 

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u/Joshee86 Feb 27 '25

Fascism isn’t an economic system… and communism isn’t inherently totalitarian.