Could you give an example of a non-fascist communist regime or period that would exemplify this comparative lack of sensibility?
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Depopulator83
Soviet Union before the NEP, and China during Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution were the big ones.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Depopulator83
I get that those periods were more ideologically communist, but not in what sense they were less politically fascist
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Depopulator83
Room for much debate, but key point IMHO is how serious they are in the pursuit of internationalist collectivism. ...
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... Or, turned around, how obvious the concession to pragmatic compromise on collectivism in the defense of national interest.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Depopulator83
What I would contest is the implication that a higher degree of internationalism or universalism played a significant role in the calamitous
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nature of the periods you identify as genuine communism, and I also can think of at least one really big example of an uncontrversially
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fascist state burning itself very badly for very unpragmatic reasons
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Depopulator83
"Uncontroversially fascist" is more complicated than generally assumed. Clearly NatSoc was uniquely aberrant, so a weird model.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Depopulator83
not bad, would you take this as far as saying that the nazis were the least fascist faction in WW2 though?
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The faction least deserving of the term "fascist" considered as an unqualified generic ideology.
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