That “lol” is quite unnecessary. There is no need to ridicule me. I would expect better from a mod of a community like this.

I dont need to, but I felt like it. I chose restraint and went with “lol” instead of really getting into how ridiculous and chauvinist of an opinion it is.

I didn’t say that is all fascism is, just that it is a tactic within fascism

You said this: “Murdering your political opponents is a fascist tactic.”

my point is just that political violence and murdering your political opponents does not work with democracy

I mean the Soviets murdered the hell out of nazis, so there is a counterexample for you. The cubans also murdered the hell out of high level regime collaborators when batista was overthrown. Another counterexample. I’m not advocating for murder within our political system but like, you’re not correct.

It literally isnt: fascism is capitalism in crisis and assassinations have gone on for most of human history, before the development of capitalism in the first place

Lol that minimizes what fascism actually is. Assassinations have happened throughout history, including before Capitalism and before the crisis within Capitalism that created fascism.

You don’t get to be overtly bigoted toward trans people here, sorry! 😭

authoritarian fascist

Please just say fascist, authoritarian has horseshoe theory vibes which we don’t allow on this com.

Limited political pluralism, realized with constraints on the legislature, political parties and interest groups.

If you’re talking about overton window size, this seems to apply more strongly to bourgeois democracy? The difference between fascist and liberal seems a lot smaller than the range of political opinion you’d find within the CPC or the old CCCP. I would recommend watching some translated videos of normal national assembly meetings in socialist countries

Political legitimacy based upon appeals to emotion and identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat “easily recognizable societal problems, such as underdevelopment or insurgency”.

Socialist countries base their legitimacy on having more thorough democratic representation than bourgeois democracies. Look up participatory democracy and whole process peoples democracy and compare that to bourgeois theories of democracy. Maybe also look up democratic centralism and the notion of strong vs weak delegates.

Minimal political mobilization, and suppression of anti-regime activities.

There are over 100 million members of the CPC. In Vietnam every couple hundred people have a dedicated party representative that is their designated point of contact with the party. Do you have a designated point of contact for your neighborhood?

Ill-defined executive powers, often vague and shifting, which extends the power of the executive.

Socialist countries, with the exemption of during ww2 when fighting against the nazis, generally have a weaker executive more subject to discipline than capitalist countries.

And when you compare ww2 ussr to ww2 Britain you’ll probably see the ussr as more democratic, and that is while 1/6 of their population was being exterminated

Can you post the definition you’re citing?

Okay but bow is authoritarian useful? Can you find a definition that applies to Vietnam, Cuba, China, etc, that doesn’t also apply to the governments of NATO countries like the US, France, England, etc?

Why would you call them authoritarian when you can just call them fascist?

“Authoritarian” is connected to horseshoe theory which has holocaust trivialization history, please avoid using it

I feel like you’re trying to argue when I’m trying very clearly to communicate,

“Your comments will be moderated if you keep using the word authoritarian”

Okay, but do you see what I am trying to communicate?

Use different language that isnt connected to a holocaust trivialization attempt.

Okay, well say those things instead then.

What are you trying to describe?

I would look to historians like Dovid Katz and search for “double genocide theory”, I would not like to make this an argument.

Please change your language when posting in the comm. “Authoritarian” and “totalitarian” are not useful descriptors and are historically connected to trying to equate the USSR and nazi Germany in order to do holocaust trivialization.

Yo, define authoritarian in a way that doesn’t include western bourgeois democracies or find a different word

The whole “authoritarian” nonsense has its roots in holocaust trivialization attempts in countries that collaborated with the nazis.

This is good for the dprk, the US still runs massive mock invasions to force them to spend massively on their military, this plus the nukes makes them a lot less precarious, especially with dedollarization too.

It was meant to be snarky as in laughing with you not at you.

I mean that was and is a basic communist agitating point, you might be closer to a communist than you think.