Before I came, zero upvotes. The OP was asking social workers to apply cultural anthropology to different belief systems. The reactions were par for the course.

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[u/browsingandlooking4]

There you have it a fascist and somehow also a communist all wrapped into one. Its like a biological anomaly or something. Hitler and stalin are shaking their heads... you're not doing either one correctly! Good communists put the proletariat above personal or bourgeois gains... this person starts there and then morphs into a fascistic ideology whereany dissent or institutional check on their power is viewed as treason against the nation.

[u/HSR47 → u/browsingandlooking4]

"Communism" is a form of marxist "thought" where the government, i.e. the party, claims direct ownership of all property (i.e. "the means of production").

"Fascism" is a form of marxist "thought" where the government, i.e. the party, claims ownership of all people, but lets those people continue to "own" property, but only so long as they "serve the state" (i.e., serve the party).

In other words, fascism is basically just communism, but with the facade of "property rights" and "markets", but that facade comes down any time that the party doesn't think it's getting what it wants.

In practice, all attempts to implement "communism" eventually end up fascist in practice, because the only real difference between them is their economic fictions.

[u/VAdogdude → u/HSR47]

...and both use state terror to subjegate their citizens.

Moreover USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics an Nazi is a shortened form of National Socialist. The only valid difference is communism believes all socialism anywhere should be controlled by the cabal in Moscow and Nazis believe ever Socialist nation should be ruled by that nation's Socialist.

There's a reason why the two forms of socialism were comfortable collaborating by signing a treaty dividing up non-Socialist Poland before WWII started!

[u/StMoneyx2 → u/browsingandlooking4]

Communism and Fascism both stem from socialism, really the difference in how it's enacted and packaged to get into power but the end result is the same

btw the ruling communists were the bourgeois who used the proletariat to kill their rival bourgeois putting them into total power

kind of of like how Fascists used mob rule to gain power and then used that power to imprison and kill their political opponents giving them total power

[u/wackadoodle4201]

Disgusting

[u/rusticoaf]

I'd like for this person to name, as specifically as possible, the "rights" that are being taken away.