A common reactions I get when I tell people I study fascism is, "oh, do you study far-left authoritarianism too ACCUSATORY GLARE" There's a lot to unpack there, but let's start here: "Oh, you study cancer? Do you study heart disease too, or are you just a big hypocrite?"
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Look, if you want to study the supposed Stalinist menace posed by everyone left of Romney, go ahead. Maybe you'd learn something about where the violence is actually coming from (hint: not the Left) Meanwhile I'm gonna specialize because specialization is how you git gud
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The real issue though is that people have been taught that fascism and communism are two different words for authoritarianism. I hear this over and over again, and it's not true.
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Communism is an economic theory that has been implemented in different ways to differing degrees of success. From Denmark to the USSR to the good old USA, Marxist and other communist/socialist thinkers have influenced policy, with various results--some very bad, some pretty ok
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I think it’s fair to say you don’t have to study the authoritarian left just because you study the authoritarian right. I don’t think it’s fair to say communism has been implemented in Denmark or that it can be implemented without abject authoritarianism.
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For sure Denmark doesn't have full communism but also its government is heavily informed by socialist ideas. And so is ours, to a lesser extent
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