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...
I do suggest to take further exchange on the matter of the list.
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On December 19, 2012 8:49:10 AM John Sessoms <[email protected]> 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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