> Fascism is widely regarded as always and everywhere the opposite/enemy of Communism and Communists.
By who? Is there a reason for this?
Fascism's self-description is basically just the motto "united we stand, divided we fall". It's right there in the name. As a philosophy, I know it best for strict intolerance of public dissent. That sort of thing undermines unity.
And that's pretty much it. I would have said that "fascism" in modern American usage had lost all meaning other than as a generic term of abuse; I would never have guessed that it was supposed to mean "the opposite of communism, whatever that might mean". "The opposite of communism" is usually considered to be capitalism.
But there seem to be many good correspondences between Chinese practice today and original, Mussolini-style fascism.
The inventors of fascism cannot satisfy the claim "is widely regarded", for the two reasons that (1) they are a very small group confined to a restricted area; and (2) they're all dead and do not currently regard anything as anything.
By who? Is there a reason for this?
Fascism's self-description is basically just the motto "united we stand, divided we fall". It's right there in the name. As a philosophy, I know it best for strict intolerance of public dissent. That sort of thing undermines unity.
And that's pretty much it. I would have said that "fascism" in modern American usage had lost all meaning other than as a generic term of abuse; I would never have guessed that it was supposed to mean "the opposite of communism, whatever that might mean". "The opposite of communism" is usually considered to be capitalism.
But there seem to be many good correspondences between Chinese practice today and original, Mussolini-style fascism.