From: Boris Liberman
John, I am sorry to burst your bubble, but if you look deep enough at
any modern bureaucratic society, you will inevitably find certain signs
of what you said in the quote below...
No bubble. That's where I was headed anyway ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
On December 19, 2012 8:49:10 AM John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
From: Doug Franklin
On 2012-12-18 22:17, John Sessoms wrote:
The essential difference between Fascism & Communism is that under
Fascism the government tells the people what to do and under Communism
the people are told what to do by the government.
I've long been under the impression that, at least as practiced by the
Germans and Italians in the 1920s-1940s, the difference was that fascism
was based on (allegedly) "what's good for the peasant folk" versus
communism's (allegedly) "what's good for everyone", in both cases, as
judged by "the powers that be".
Soviet style Marxist-Leninist communism was "what's good for the
proletariat" - supposedly the workers.
Russia had several different flavors of "communists" after the revolution.
Eventually the Bolsheviks won out and killed off all the others.
In action, both systems created a new governing class made up of the
party faithful to serve the interests of the peasant-folk/workers. And
for some reason the interests of the peasant-folk/workers was almost
always what most benefited the new governing class.
Whatever the differences in the guiding philosophical principles of
Fascism & Communism, when viewed from the lower social strata looking
up, they appear remarkably similar.
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