• antifa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Think about it this way: just because a group claims to be socialist or leftist, doesn’t exempt them from being fascist. If they support fascism, they’re not leftist, no matter what they call themselves.

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      1 year ago

      Fascism is not a synonym for authoritarian, and the people calling communists “red fascists” don’t seem to understand the differences between the two ideologies, and the history of governments that espoused either.

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        1 year ago

        Red fascism as a term originates with Trotsky, who, I’m fairly sure we can all agree, understood the difference between communism and fascism.

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          1 year ago

          Mainstream Jewish holocaust survivors don’t like the comparison.

          https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

          Also Trotsky sure did a lot of anticommunism for a communist who (checks notes) only joined the communists when it was clear which way the wind was blowing in the summer of 1917 and got kicked out of the party and exiled by 80 percent of the party after several years of advocating for the petite bourgeoisie.