• Raconteur_Rob@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You actually just proved their point by defining authoritarianism and calling it fascism. Fascist governments are authoritarian but that’s just one aspect of it.

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      1 year ago

      I literally just pulled the first result on google…

      And like I said for general conversations this definition is absolutely adequate.

      It’s like talking about American Democracy and someone goes “well, technically we’re a Republic!”… Ok great…

      The difference between fascism and communism is that people have generally a good idea of what a fascist government looks like, while they really don’t understand the other terms.

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        1 year ago

        I disagree that people generally have a good idea what a fascist government looks like, or else there wouldn’t be this level of confusion. I think most people at best, know what countrys had a problem with fascism in the past, without any certainty of what parts of of those governments were where the fascism was, just guesses.

        Thats why comparisons to nazis and such are so common I would say. People find it a lot easier to point out similarities to known fascism than to try and concisely point out the exact point where an action became “fascist”

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        1 year ago

        I literally just pulled the first result on google…

        Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.